{"id":201582,"date":"2025-12-30T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=201582"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:24:07","slug":"betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=201582","title":{"rendered":"Betting scandals broke sports. Could prediction markets do the same to politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone you know is about to start putting their money where their mouth is.\u00a0 Prediction markets are booming. Think of them as like a stock market, but instead of buying shares in companies, you buy shares in the outcomes of real-world events \u2014 and you can bet on almost anything&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/471380\/prediction-markets-politics-kalshi-polymarket\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone you know is about to start putting their money where their mouth is.\u00a0 Prediction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201582-betting-scandals-broke-sports-could-prediction-markets-do-the-same-to-politics-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}