Chris Murphy
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1,330 appearances
64 recordings
22 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 29 Jun
Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But we don't, nor do our staff, have to disclose any bets we've made on prediction markets.
And so at the very least, if we're not going to ban these prediction markets, we should do the same thing we do for stocks and make every member of Congress and every high-ranking staff person have to disclose if they're making bets on the prediction markets.
The reality is these unregulated crypto markets, they are the place where really bad people do their financing.
It's where the sex predators and the drug smugglers and the terrorists do their money.
And they used to have a really hard time moving their money back when everything was, back when money was moved through banks
transparent, visible exchanges.
The same thing is happening with these prediction markets.
Obviously, we don't know who's making these trades an hour before the markets open or the day before war starts.
The president has his own cryptocurrency, and we can't see who's putting money in his pocket.
Maybe it's just MAGA fans, but maybe it's foreign governments or oligarchs or CEOs that are buying Trump's crypto coin, putting money in his pocket, and then whispering to him what they want from government.
So yeah, at the very least, just putting some transparency around all these markets would at least allow journalists and citizens to see whether it's on the level or not.
I don't think it's one that you can necessarily turn the clock back on.
Oh, I think we could absolutely turn back the clock.
I mean, the clock hasn't, you know, run the dial many times.
This is a really recent phenomenon.
And the prediction market problem in sports is a specific and acute one.
Okay, if the only bet you can place is on the outcome of a game, we still acknowledge that there's, you know, a lot of randomness that happens in that game.
That is not, unless somebody is really on the take, a knowable event.
But
Giannis is, you know, a big investor now in Kalshi.
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