News Summary

• Insider trading used to be the domain of mergers and acquisitions lawyers, bankers in contrast collars, and Martha Stewart.
• But the game has been opened up for millions of Americans, democratized by prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
• Much of this is thanks to Gannon Van Dyke, allegedly charged with insider trading with the u.s. Special Forces for allegedly rigging the ratings for the TV series Alien: Earth.
• A few prediction-market experts say there was a better way to do this: Take a universally loved movie and submit a review, just before the deadline, saying it sucks.