No Terror Stock Market

07/29/2003 Mises Wire Joseph R. Stromberg

Terror Betting Dropped(Sky News): “The Pentagon has abandoned plans to set up a ‘terror stock market’ in which investors could bag cash by successfully predicting terrorist attacks. US defence chiefs had hoped the market would have been a valuable tool in second guessing when terror strikes would occur.” See also Google News for Terror Stock Market.

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