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On August 4, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) had withdrawn its no-action letter (i.e., permission to operate) with respect to PredictIt, an online prediction market operated by ...

For political junkies, the midterms have been an unusually stressful roller coaster. Pollsters forecasted a Republican triumph before the summer’s Dobbs decision gave Democrats the opportunity to defy ...

In 2016, Jason Pipkin was working in a biology lab at Brandeis University, authoring papers with titles such as “Mapping the mind of a fly,” when he first heard of PredictIt. It is a website where you ...

WASHINGTON -- Want to stake money on whether Donald Trump will be re-elected or impeached? There's a website that allows you to do that legally. PredictIt refers to itself as "the Stock Market for ...

All politics is local… especially when you can now bet on it almost anywhere and any time. Americans head to the polls every four years to elect their president. American election bettors, however, ...

Recently, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, withdrew its no-action letter from Victoria University of Wellington, which since 2014 has been allowed to operate the political prediction ...

PredictIt, several of its traders and academic users, and technology provider Aristotle International have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from ...

PredictIt lets users bet on political events, such as congressional votes and presidential tweets. Some users have made thousands of dollars betting on politics through the website. One trader, who is ...

PredictIt, a market that built its name by letting Americans bet on who will be elected to Congress or the next president, has lost its legal authority to operate in the US. The move by the Commodity ...

Itoldyousaurus, the latest PredictIt character, embodies the moment when hindsight meets market-based forecasting. · GlobeNewswire Inc. Itoldyousaurus AI Video Campaign Still For millions of years, ...

The fad or fashion of “prediction markets” has evolved in recent years from an intellectual toy into a cottage industry. Inspired by the way the stock market magically collates supply and demand for a ...