DAVID MARCUS: Brave new world of prediction markets can make us all inside traders

Prediction markets let thousands of people profit from insider trading, from soldiers betting on military action to White House teleprompter operators.

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When I was born in the 1970s, legal gambling was basically limited to Las Vegas, Atlantic City and horse racing.

Then came Indian casinos, and finally, the floodgates opened with online gambling.

Nowadays, with the advent of prediction markets, we can lay down a marker on almost any event on Earth.

One serious upshot of the rise of companies like Kalshi and Polymarket, which would be happy to set up a market to see if Lindy’s sells more cheesecake or strudel today, is that far, far more people have the feedbox noise than ever before.

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Origin wording grade

Grade B reflects 20/100 framing risk from decision pressure, sweeping generalization; each finding below is tied to stored wording.

B 20/100 risk

Confidence: 86%
Format: opinion
Findings: 3
Method: origin-framing-v2

Outlet context is separate. right (+65, 60% confidence). This profile does not change the article grade.

Evidence behind the grade

Decision pressurebody

+5 · 82% confidence

12, 2026 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The danger here is that instead of looking at the world as the creation of human beings, we mortal souls become little more than the ball on the roulette wheel, which inevitably must stop somewhere, to somebody’s benefit.

The wording urges a conclusion or action rather than only describing the reported facts. Its weight is reduced because this article is identified as opinion.

Decision pressurebody

+5 · 82% confidence

But we must understand, the bet is never on which candidate will win, it's on which candidate will have a surge, whether it is organic or AstroTurf.

The wording urges a conclusion or action rather than only describing the reported facts. Its weight is reduced because this article is identified as opinion.

Sweeping generalizationbody

+10 · 78% confidence

But we must understand, the bet is never on which candidate will win, it's on which candidate will have a surge, whether it is organic or AstroTurf.

The wording makes a broad claim that may exceed the evidence described in the sentence.

Useful context, not penalties

Opinion format Argumentative wording is expected in this format, so narrator-voice and decision-pressure cues receive reduced weight.

What this grade does and does not mean

This grade evaluates wording and reader-steering cues, not factual accuracy.
The outlet's general profile is separate context and does not affect this article grade.
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