Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly refused to acknowledge Donald Trump’s blatantly corrupt stock trading under fierce questioning by Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday.
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Warren hammered Bessent for pushing to end congressional stock trading, while Trump made more than 3,400 stock trades worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the…
Egal ob Krypto- oder Prognosemärkte: Trump dereguliert und profitiert. – Gemeinfrei-ähnlich freigegeben durch unsplash.com: Igor OmilaevWährend weltweit immer mehr Länder Prognosemärkte als Glücksspiel behandeln, baut die Trump-Regierung ihre Aufsichtsbehörde zum Anwalt der Branche um. In den USA sollen Krypto- und Prognosemärkte so unreguliert wie möglich wachsen können – und Familie Trump…
Prediction market analysts uncovered what looks like blatant insider trading within the U.S. military after a group of nine connected Polymarket accounts won more than $2.4 million by placing bets on Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
Nicolas Vaiman, the CEO of data analytics firm Bubblemaps, told CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday that across more than 80 bets, a series of nine anonymous accounts had a 98…
Donald Trump’s blatant corruption just got even more outrageous.
A recent financial disclosure revealed that the president bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stocks in tech companies and government contractors, including Palantir and Nvidia, NOTUS reported Friday.
On February 10, Donald Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in Nvidia, a massive AI chip…
President Donald Trump executed more than 3,600 individual securities transactions in the first quarter of 2026, new federal ethics filings show, with multiple trades timed days before his administration issued regulatory decisions or awarded contracts that benefited the same companies. Trump filed the 113-page Form 278-T with the Office of Government Ethics on May 8, […]
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The U.S. Department of Justice, alongside the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is probing over $2.6 billion in oil trades executed with uncanny timing just before major announcements related to the Iran conflict by President Donald Trump and a senior Iranian official. Investigators are focusing on at least four specific trades where massive bets were placed […]
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Gambling companies have cited recent federal charges as proof that illegal activity is being rooted out. The companies’ critics say the cases do not address widespread illicit activity.
The White House has warned staff not to wager on government decisions, but his family’s involvement with these firms undermines the president’s message.
Insider trading is of no concern to the Trump administration.
Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a 38-year-old active duty Army soldier involved in the planning and capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, with using confidential intel to win $400,000 on Polymarket predictions related to the raid.
But Donald Trump practically shrugged off the illegal activity while…
When your brand is “WINNING!”, but you keep losing and can’t seem to win anything anymore, things fall apart quickly. As more and more evidence suggests on today’s BradCast, that’s where our flailing and faltering President finds himself. Of course, once gain, we all have to pay the price for his failures. [Audio link to […]
Insider trading has been an open secret in politics for decades. That said, the internet and social media have made trading more normalized and more blatant to the point that lawmakers can no longer ignore it. Kalshi, a popular online prediction market platform, has risen to the top of trading apps in the market. Anything […]
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The prediction market said the candidates violated new rules as it faces growing scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators over how political betting is policed.
What are the odds that The BradCast would take a deep dive into the corruption of White House insiders placing anonymous, incredibly well-timed bets on unregulated “prediction markets’ and making a killing at it? [Audio link to full show follows beneath this summary.] BUT FIRST… It’s Special Election Day in Virginia, where voters are deciding […]
Last month, I considered whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used what he knew about the imminence of the Iran war to expand his stock portfolio with a little blood money (“Is Pete Hegseth Killing Iranians To Get Rich?”). That was the thrust of a shocking Financial Times report, based on three anonymous sources, that said Hegseth’s Morgan Stanley broker approached BlackRock in February about…
The Trump administration is warning staffers not to bet on world events in futures markets.
_The Wall Street Journal_ reports that the White House Management Office sent out a staff-wide email on March 24 telling administration employees not to engage in the practice following President Donald Trump’s announcement the previous day that he was pausing strikes against Iran.
The email was likely…
Ob er darüber mit den Augen rollen würde? – Gemeinfrei-ähnlich freigegeben durch unsplash.com Jose Manuel EspPrediction Markets sind in vielen Ländern illegal. Das Wetten auf zukünftige politische und gesellschaftliche Ereignisse wird aber immer populärer. Dabei sind die Wetten manipulationsanfällig und ethisch teilweise höchst fragwürdig.
Most of us were duly alarmed on Tuesday morning when the president of the United States threatened to end a civilization by 8 p.m. Eastern time. It seemed entirely possible that if Iran did not “Open the fuckin’ Strait,” as Donald Trump put it, he would drop a tactical nuke on Tehran or do something slightly less apocalyptic but nonetheless genocidal. When a feebleminded lunatic runs the world’s…
The Iran war is shaping up to be history’s first global conflict fought inside the stock market.
At 7:27 a.m. Monday, before the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Great progress has been made” in negotiations with “A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran.” There’s no evidence any of this was true. Trump’s aim…
A series of uncannily timed bets on the price of oil and stocks deserves a proper investigation. It’s far from clear that they’ll get one.
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Oil traders wagered bets worth $580 million just minutes before Trump announced he had “productive conversations” with Iran to end the war, suggesting that the president’s announcement was nothing more than a ploy to manipulate markets.
Fifteen minutes before the president’s unexpected announcement at 7:04 a.m. Monday, about 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate Futures contracts changed…
With betting apps—sorry, “prediction markets”—like Kalshi and Polymarket, it’s easier than ever to profit off of deadly conflicts.
An anonymous user made nearly $1 million on Polymarket with dozens of eerily accurate bets about the ongoing Iran war, CNN reported on Tuesday.
The user bet with a 93 percent accuracy on topics such as when U.S. and Israeli airstrikes would occur in 2024, 2025, and…
Insider Trading parte de una premisa llamativa: trasladar la estructura de un roguelike de construcción de mazos al terreno de la especulación bursátil. Inspirado en la lógica de títulos como Balatro, el juego sustituye las apuestas tradicionales por semanas de operaciones en el mercado, donde el objetivo no es derrotar enemigos, sino alcanzar objetivos financieros antes de que el despido ponga…
Naiive Studio anunció hoy que “Insider Trading”, un roguelike de construcción de mazos inspirado en el mercado de valores, ya está disponible en Steam. En “Insider Trading”, el riesgo aumenta con rapidez. Pequeñas operaciones pueden convertirse en ganancias compuestas que parecen imparables, hasta que el mercado cambia de rumbo y todo se derrumba. Cada partida comienza con un personaje que cuenta…
Le dimissioni erano attese e sono arrivate. Stefano Di Stefano, amministratore non indipendente di Monte dei Paschi di Siena e componente del comitato rischi e sostenibilità, ha lasciato il consiglio di amministrazione della banca senese “per ragioni personali e in relazione all’avvio di indagini a suo carico”, come comunica Mps in una nota. L’istituto, preso […]
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