Editing Policy Analysis Market (section)

== Further developments ==

CNN reported the program would be relaunched by the private firm, Net Exchange,<ref name="SS1" /> that helped create it, but that the newer version "will not include any securities based on forecasts of violent events such as assassinations or terror attacks".<ref name="Middle">{{cite news |title=Middle East futures market returns. Private firm will restart Pentagon project, but without contracts for violence, in 2004. |first=Mark |last=Gongloff |date=November 17, 2003 |work=[[CNN.com]] |publisher=[[Time Warner]] |url =https://money.cnn.com/2003/11/17/news/terror_futures/index.htm |access-date=2006-07-16}}</ref>

On June 11, 2007, ''[[Popular Science]]'' launched a similar program, known as the [[Popular Science Predictions Exchange|PopSci Predictions Exchange]]. Another project was the American Action Market announced by Tad Hirsh of the [[MIT Media Lab]] in 2003, which would permit for-profit betting on major events.

There are now commercial [[Policy analysis|policy-analysis]] markets that perform such functions.  One, [[Intrade]], had previously offered futures on events such as the capture of Osama bin Laden, the US Presidential Election, and the bombing of Iran.  As of March 10, 2013, all trading had been suspended on Intrade's website due to undisclosed financial irregularities.