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Ben Kahan's avatar

Preordered!

One more attempt to get this in the mailbag, all the more relevant now that you're formally involved with prediction markets - would love your take on this story of Rishi Sunak's aide betting on the timing of the UK election, in all likelihood with insider information (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/12/rishi-sunaks-closest-aide-placed-bet-on-election-date-days-before-announcement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other). I think it's a really curious case, I can see how it's a bad visual for this guy... but how can you justify a legal political prediction market that suppresses good information? Do you see this as the same as an athlete betting on one of their own games, or different? How about insider trading in the stock market?

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Daniel Chandross's avatar

Congratulations! Have you considered offering some sort of book + year of Silver Bulletin bundle? I have a hunch there's a significant overlap in the set of readers.

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