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  The Blockchain: A New Paradigm for Data

  By Mark Helfman

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  February 9, 2022

  A step closer to protecting individual privacy In April 2021, Russian hackers gained access to Colonial Pipeline’s computer network and shut it down. They demanded $4.4 million in bitcoin to…
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  Art class

  By Jeff Joseph

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  February 2, 2022

  Central banks have injected trillions of dollars into faltering economies to bolster financial markets in the face of the pandemic, but much of that cash has found its way to…
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  Luckbox Leans in with Phil Tetlock

  By Luckbox

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  January 11, 2022

  Philip Tetlock, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has helped a generation of forecasters hone their prediction skills. At the university’s Good Judgment Project, Tetlock…
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  Money Over Mind

  By Mike Reddy

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  January 10, 2022

  Making—or losing—money in prediction markets can change beliefs. But how does that work?   Stock and options traders are continually trying to predict the future. After all, every market decision…
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  Adversarial Collaboration

  By Warren Hatch

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  January 10, 2022

  (Bickering for Better) Lawmakers’ disagreements over government spending—from the bipartisan infrastructure bill to President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda—have at times seemed insurmountable. Concerns about inflation have played a…
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  Crypto Doomsday

  By Mark Helfman

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  January 10, 2022

  The year 2022 will mark the demise of cryptocurrency as we know it   When forecasters get a prediction right, critics often chalk it up to little more than coincidence. But let’s…
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  Predictions for 2022 and beyond

  By Garrett Baldwin

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  January 10, 2022

  After a respectable showing with last year’s predictions, Luckbox returns to forecast 20 outlier events for the next two years   BUSINESS & MEDIA As Mark Zuckerberg shifts his attention…
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  LUCKBOX READERS VS. MARKET EXPERTS

  By Luckbox

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  January 10, 2022

  The Luckbox editorial team uses polls to gauge reader sentiment ahead of every issue. This time, the editors posed the same questions to a panel of financial experts. Here’s how…
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  Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution

  By Ed McKinley

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  January 10, 2022

  A series of numbers known as the Fibonacci sequence revolutionized commerce and science. But can it help traders pick the right stocks? A 13th-century Italian mathematician known these days as…
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  FALSE PROPHETS

  By luckbox magazine

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  December 20, 2021

  As we wrap up the annual prediction issue of Luckbox, our thoughts turn to Michel de Nostradame (aka Nostradamus), an enterprising early master of the side hustle. Although he was…