EBay and Super Bowl Economics

The confounding success of the famous Super Bowl economic indicator, where the winning team's conference seems to correlate with the coming year's economy, is spilling over into other areas of voodoo economics. This time it's reversed as eBayers are predicting the outcome of America's time-honored obsession based upon the going price of each team's merchandise. This smells of a publicity stunt. Using the eBay Market Data Program, eBay developer Mpire has a running hotdog for sale. EBay Director of Developers Program, Greg Isaacs, writes on his weblog that the data could be "one (loose) predictor of who may win the Super Bowl." Of course, Steelers fans know that the only way Seattle is going to win is if some karmic event like "here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web