Chris Gerlacher

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd · Sharp or Square - THE FUTURE OF BETTING PART 1 - Prediction Markets, Scandals & Legal Battles · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So,

Those are the kinds of issues that are beginning to trickle into Congress.

You're seeing some early bills being introduced that aren't necessarily going to go all the way to passing, but subjects that come up over and over again, these insider trading concerns.

If you're in the federal government, don't misuse your information.

Don't resolve markets based on war, violence, terrorism, death.

Those issues are coming down the pipeline.

And even if they don't pass in this term, once you get to 2029 and you get a new CFTC, you can see Congress and you can see a new CFTC start to take more harsh action on prediction markets.

That's part of it.

There are already concerns about sports betting coming online and online sports betting and the backlash to all of those advertisements.

And prediction markets didn't just step into it.

They got aggressive and they went through the influencer marketing on X last year before they pulled that back this year.

They I mean, they're not stepping into a great environment if they want to win hearts and minds over here, if we're worried about gambling.

So that did not do them any favors.

And, you know, again, lawmakers may be hearing about it.

They are hearing about it now, even if they're slow to actually put something together that will be lasting and put together.

guardrails on certain key issues.

There is FTC already released a proposed draft of a rule, I think a week and a half ago now, or about a week ago.

And they've all but prohibited contracts on war, terrorism, assassination.

That was pretty much done in practice in the regulated space on Calshi already.

But they're also beginning to pull back on certain sports markets.

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