Campaign staffers are turning private polling data into personal paydays. They describe election prediction market as a “Wild West” for staffers.
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A Polymarket trader made $300,000 betting on Biden’s pardons, a new analysis shows
In the final hours of President Biden’s term, an anonymous prediction market trader placed lucrative bets on who would be pardoned even as the odds were nearly zero.
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A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House
Efforts to ban congressional stock trading have stalled for years. But a group of bipartisan lawmakers has a new consensus plan and wants a vote to show lawmakers aren’t profiting from their roles.
