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A long-form piece framing prediction markets, options trading, and crypto as part of the same cultural shift toward financializing uncertainty.
The Times notes that in an era where polling is "broken," prediction market odds have filled the vacuum as the default measure of political probability. That's both the industry's greatest opportunity and its greatest liability…
Fortune asked whether it's ethical that people are winning millions on prediction markets. They say it's also a zero-sum game where skilled players systematically extract money from less skilled players.
Nobody calls poker unethical because a professional beats a recreational player. The ethics question in prediction markets is the same one poker has always had: is it acceptable for sophisticated participants to profit from the mistakes of unsophisticated ones?
The Reichenbach & Walther study we covered yesterday said pretty much that skilled traders do profit consistently, and they do it by exploiting the biases of less skilled participants…so it should come to no surprise that people most skilled routinely outperform the less skilled.
Not sure, but The Athletic reported that LeBron himself was a prediction market subject this summer, with contracts on where he'd sign drawing more than $270 million in volume including $45 million on Polymarket alone.
While they’re trying to argue whether an athlete being traded on a prediction market while simultaneously endorsing one could be a problem Commissioner Adam Silver has said players can own stakes in prediction market companies up to 1%.
LeBron is an endorser, not an investor.
Derek Jeter and Eli Manning also have Polymarket deals. you can fead more about them.
The line between athlete, endorser, and market subject is getting blurry in ways the leagues haven't caught up to.
🌙 Daily Prediction Market Moonshot Report
🇷🇺 Putin out — Same wallet. Six minutes. $5,100.
This wallet made two separate buys on Putin out as President of Russia by December 31 last night.
9:27 PM — $1,400 on YES at 2.9 cents.
9:33 PM — $3,700 on YES at 3.0 cents.
Same wallet. Six minutes apart. $5,100 total.
At an average of ~3 cents, $5,100 buys roughly 170,000 YES shares. Payout if Putin exits before December 31: approximately $170,000.
We've now featured this market five separate times. This is the largest single-wallet position we've seen on it. Someone isn't dabbling — they're building.
🗳️ James Talarico — Same wallet, two buys, 19 hours apart
Most people don't know who James Talarico is. This wallet — the same one that built the full Wes Moore position in thirty seconds back in August — does.
10:07 AM yesterday: Will James Talarico win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination? — $1,000 on YES at 2.9 cents.
5:19 AM this morning: Same market, same wallet — $1,000 on YES at 3.1 cents.
Two buys. Nineteen hours apart. $2,000 total on a Texas state representative who announced he's running for Congress in 2026.
Talarico, 33, is a progressive Democrat from Austin — former teacher, Rhodes Scholar, known for viral floor speeches in the Texas legislature. He's not a declared 2028 presidential candidate. At 3 cents, $2,000 buys roughly 65,000 YES shares. Combined payout: approximately $65,000.
This wallet has been systematically building positions across the entire Democratic 2028 bench — Wes Moore, Beshear, Buttigieg, now Talarico twice. They're not betting on one name. They're buying the entire dark horse rack.
1.0 cent. YES. $1,100. 4:44 AM.
This wallet put $1,100 on Chelsea Clinton — who has never held elected office and has not indicated any interest in running — at 4:44 in the morning.
At 1 cent, $1,100 buys 110,000 YES shares. Payout if Chelsea Clinton wins the Democratic nomination: approximately $110,000.
The penny bin of the 2028 field keeps getting shopped.
More moonshot opportunities updated in real time at Prediction Market Whales.
10 Stocks at the Center of AI’s $1 Trillion Boom
AI’s growth story is much bigger than chatbots.
The market was already valued at an estimated $800 billion by late 2025, and continued adoption could push it beyond $1 trillion in the years ahead. That growth will require more data centers, computing power, software, networking and intelligent devices.
But the most obvious AI names may not be the only companies positioned to benefit.
MarketBeat’s free 10 Best AI Stocks to Own in 2026 report identifies ten publicly traded companies helping power the next phase of the AI buildout. Some are established leaders. Others occupy less obvious corners of the expanding AI ecosystem.
This free report names 10 stocks positioned to ride that wave before the rest of the market catches on.
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