Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband.
News Source : Longreads.com
News Summary
- When everything is a market, anyone can be an insider.
- After watching her composer husband’s work become fodder for bets on a popular prediction market, Carrie Sun, an “MIT math nerd” and hedge-fund alumnus, decides to put a bit of her own money to work.
- The chief thrill, here, is watching Sun pit her own natural, human desire for drama against the insider knowledge she reveals, time and again, operating just out of plain sight.
When everything is a market, anyone can be an insider.
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