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The Jesus market is really a bet on interest rates. You should bet that Jesus will return if interest rates are >3% because "No" holders will sell to put their money in the bank instead.


You are probably right, but I believe it's a failure of prediction whatever the reason is.


It is, but it's a well known systemic error that has to do with the rate of return from certain accuracy improving predictions falling below the rate of return of anything else.

You can learn a lot more about whether these markets are accurate at this great resource:

https://calibration.city/introduction


There's a Caltech reference in Maria+Holic Alive episode 5: https://imgur.com/a/XUP62sN

At 1:13-2:20 and 3:55-4:35: https://www.hidive.com/stream/maria-holic-alive/s02e005 (requires paid subscription)


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