A friend of mine from the States sent me an email the other day, says Chad Rigetti, VP of Business Development for Intrade, from its Dublin headquarters. It said: Someone should do a study on how all the American liberals are obsessively logging in to Intrade to view their electoral prediction map. Doctors are going to start prescribing it in place of Xanax, for anxiety.

Theres something to that. Especially when you consider Intrades prediction markets might be more accurate than