It was looking like we were going to slip through the entire Nobel season without a winner in the Uncertain Principles Betting Pool, but at the eleventh hour, we got one: DougT correctly predicted that the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel would be shared by Eugene Fama (remember, the requirement to name all the laureates for a particular prize applied only to votes for a Higgs boson prize in physics).
So, congratulations to Doug! Email me to claim your valuable prize.
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