The entire U.S. economy is basically a giant betting app
News Source : Salon
News Summary
- Senators oppose gambling on wildfire outcomes, but the financial sector rewards amoral wagers.
- After giving over way too much private data to Kalshi, I was able to browse entire categories dedicated to natural disasters and climate change.
- I also found weird things like how many Atlantic hurricanes this year or if California will be hit by a magnitude 8 earthquake.
- The most shocking queries I could find were things like who will get kicked out of Trump admin next or if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be arrested by year’s end.
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