Started by Tomás Rinaldi (@tomas_rinaldi) ·
Hollywood Stock Exchange, and the real box office futures Congress banned
HSX launched in 1996 as a fake-money market for movies and turned out to be decent at predicting box office and Oscars. In 2010 regulators approved real-money box office futures, and a few months later Congress banned them in Dodd–Frank after the film industry lobbied against them.
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How I got here
- Started with
- “hollywood stock exchange how accurate oscars”
- Ended at
- Dodd–Frank Act
The Trail
- “hollywood stock exchange how accurate oscars” (google.com)
- Hollywood Stock Exchange (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cantor Fitzgerald (en.wikipedia.org)
- “box office futures banned 2010” (google.com)
- Dodd–Frank Act (en.wikipedia.org)
the box office futures ban is tucked into a financial reform law. still funny to me
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