What’s In A Name? Euphemism and LLMs Replace Fear and Loathing in Prediction Markets
Paranoid? Worried about the impact of A.I. on your employment prospects? No need to be. AI has been consigned to the definitions…
Tarek Mansour
Amid Bear Pit Of Legal Fights, Hot and Heavy Prediction Market Sites Kalshi and Polymarket Secure Millions in Funding
Despite legal battles, controversial prediction market wagering sites Kalshi and Polymarket have raised millions of dollars in funding to boost their assault…
Betting On The Future is a Family Affair, Trumpworld Powers Prediction Markets
Never has the ancient, back-handed Chinese rejoinder, I hope you live in “interesting” times, been more prescient. For, under the stewardship of…
Letter From America 35
It was always going to be an eventful second term for President Trump, but few would have predicted such a frenetic pace…
What’s Not To Kalshi? Nevada Cease-and-Desist Order Nixed By Feds
Prediction markets platform Kalshi has won a temporary restraining order against the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB), allowing it to continue operating…
Prediction Markets: Battle For The Soul of U.S. iGaming
A Trumpian “Mother of all iGaming Battles” is looming over the status and legality of the coming–but wildly controversial–prediction markets business. At…
Trump On Trump: Gambling USA 2025, It’s Going To Be A Bigly Year
Before the presidency, before “The Apprentice”, there was gambling and Donald Trump’s controversial Atlantic City casino empire: The Trump Plaza Casino and…
Futures Imperfect, CFTC Derivatives Watchdog Looks To Ban Gambling On U.S. Presidential Election
To most of us America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is a little known financial watchdog, if known at all. But it…