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Latest: Read my Mother’s Day essay for @thedispatch.
Me, My Mom, and Paddington: How Britain’s favorite bear got me—and my mom—through hard times.
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Alex Demas
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Alex Demas
@AJDemas
Monitoring the situation @TheDispatch | [email protected]
Washington, DC Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Prediction markets are being embedded in news coverage | @AJDemas explains in his latest piece
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Why are so many disgraced GOPers and failed pols running in a ruby red GOP primary on Gulf Coast of FL? Madison Cawthorn vs Chris Collins? A J6er? Two candidates from IL? Another from NY?
A peek inside an ultra-MAGA contest...
thedispatch.com/article/madiso…
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@JBSDC But it’s also true that the CFTC has largely chosen not to exercise its rule 180.1 powers for insider trading cases, at least thus far. Especially in cases that don’t involve clear manipulation/fraud, the CFTC has been quite restrained, which is notable compared to SEC.
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It’s true. Rule 180.1 restricts insider trading in all futures and CFTC regulated products.
Rob Schwartz@FormerCFTCGC
Hey @mattyglesias and @brianbeutler, it’s me, your favorite former General Counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission! I appreciated your discussion of oil futures on this week’s podcast. To your point about trading on non-public information, the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC’s regulations do prohibit insider trading in somewhat the same way as the securities laws do. In the case of commodity futures, that includes government information. I’d be happy to explain. Please let me know when you are next recording. Cheers!
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Sports betting swallowed sports media in just a few years. Now prediction markets are running the same playbook on news organizations—and many newsrooms don’t seem prepared for the ethics issues that could bring.
My latest for @thedispatch:
thedispatch.com/article/predic…
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Do you know an early-career journalist who would be a good fit for @TheDispatch? Our friends @TFASorg are sponsoring a year-long fellowship at The Dispatch to encourage fact-based reporting and analysis. Pls share widely!
jefapply.connect.tfas.org
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@jsidman I couldn't find an ABCA application or DC business license, so would have to be a pop-up in an existing space. I've reached out to Polymarket - will update if they answer.
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Assuming this is real, anyone know where it actually is?
Polymarket@Polymarket
We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵
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“In every sort of influence vector that you can imagine, the UAE is a big player, if not the biggest player,” Ben Freeman told The Dispatch. | @AJDemas
thedispatch.com/article/united…
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After spending big to curry favor in DC for decades, the UAE has finally secured its Holy Grail - direct financial influence over President Trump himself.
New from me for @thedispatch:
thedispatch.com/article/united…
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The Barbican complex in London, a true Brutalist masterpiece
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Stop by Georgetown University on Tuesday night as I moderate a fun and nerdy conversation on politics and prediction markets.
Georgetown Institute of Politics & Public Service@GUPolitics
Should you be able to bet on elections? How about international conflicts? Join us for a conversation on how prediction markets work, how they are regulated, and whether making money off of real world events is a net good for society Learn more & RSVP: bit.ly/PredictionPoli…
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Thom Tillis is threatening to stonewall the nominations process in committee as much as he can if Sec. Noem doesn't get him answers to his Q's about immigration enforcement in two weeks. That's not just DHS noms but ALL noms he can vote on in committee
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"Any committee I'm on: Finance, Banking, Judiciary, VA—I will stop my own noms," he tells @thedispatch
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New from me @thedispatch:
The CFTC is flexing its muscles in Washington and laying claim to both crypto and prediction markets. But can the regulator keep up with its own expanding importance?
thedispatch.com/article/commod…
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From Corn to Crypto: The Rise of the CFTC Can the financial regulator keep up with its growing importance? | @AJDemas
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NEW: The Supreme Court has held that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled against Trump’s tariffs. The legal fight may be over. The damage isn’t.
"A Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s emergency tariff powers will only help American small businesses so much." | @McCormackJohn
thedispatch.com/article/donald…
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@ohaiom @dbarabander CFTC may be “watching”, and they do have the authority to investigate, but thus far there’s been very little indication that they’ll actually take action. Insider trading and market manipulation laws in derivatives markets speak quietly compared to in securities.
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A great look at a VERY important (and very complicated) topic.
Everyone thinking they can manipulate prediction markets to make some money needs to understand: market manipulation is fraud, and the DOJ and CFTC are watching.
Thanks @dbarabander for the great piece.
Daniel Barabander@dbarabander
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Very happy to report that @thedispatch is expanding our books coverage and just launched a weekend books/culture newsletter. @valerificent
Tunku Varadarajan@tunkuv
As someone who writes book reviews, about twice a month, for @WSJBooks, it breaks my heart to see the disappearing of books sections across the country. The last loss: the books section of the @washingtonpost ...
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@patrickc @brian_armstrong But @patrickc, the fact that Coinbase is publicly traded, and therefore @brian_armstrong has a fiduciary obligation to its shareholders, has to complicate this line of argument. Am I wrong?
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Something this WSJ piece omits is that what @brian_armstrong is arguing for is not obviously in Coinbase's interest: in a world where yield sharing is prohibited, USDC will at least in a first-order way be more directly profitable for Coinbase. As far as I can tell, Brian's position stems from his belief in the importance of a vibrant and competitive market that protects consumer liberty, and I think he deserves a lot of credit for that.
wsj.com/finance/curren….
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