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Pentagon stops plans for "Terror-Trading"

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Wed, 07/30/2003 - 13:45 — Christoph C. Cemper

Pentagon axes online terror bets The Pentagon abandons plans to set up an online trading market for bets on future terrorist attacks… obviously they wanted to create a sort of terror-stock market with contracts similar to the future market so that whenever some terror incident happens some people get very richt… now this is REALLY sick!...

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