Trading on the Future of our Country

You have to give these guys points for creativity! They have founded an online trading site to trade futures... not in pork, not in citrus, not in precious metals, but in the future of our country! For $10 you can get in on the action and trade futures in the results of Senator Kerry's Vice Presidential selection, the capture of Osama Bin Laden before the election, and whether Mr. Bush or Mr. Kerry will be president as of January 2005. This is a novel way of doing things, but it comes from an old idea that people tend to be smarter in groups than they are as individuals. So far, news analysis seems to show that futures trading does a good job of predicting actual outcomes. Wanna get in on the action?