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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by adrianN on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:19AM (#18745044)
Don't you usually start a derivative market if the transaction costs of the original market are too high?
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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by zwischenzug on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:02AM (#18745165)
Derivative of what, though? There's no index to track that people will agree on or can't be gamed.
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Re:Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? by dagw on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:43AM (#18745596)
In the US there's the Case-Schiller index which is the underlying for several classes of derivatives.
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