More reliable than Intrade?

The Dow, NASDAQ, and the S&P 500 were all up by more than 1 percent today, with healthcare stocks leading the way. Plainly, as my friend Bill Otis says, the reason is that the market thinks Brown will win and that Obamacare will fail as a result.

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