Damn the Slam PAM Plan! - Canceling the Pentagon's futures market is cowardly and dumb. By James Surowiecki Here is an explanation of why those futures markets for terrorism proposed by DARPA weren't so wacky. In fact, there is futures market being set up now that will deal in the futures of things like the odds that Bush will be impeached and what country the USA will attack next. Academics who are able to rise above a concrete understanding of ideas like the futures thing because it works...