Kimberly Adams

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Marketplace All-in-One · Who can stop insider trading on prediction markets? · 9 Apr 2026 podcast

So folks listening may have seen some of the headlines over the past few months about these big bets and how oddly timed they were.

But for those who haven't, can you give us an idea of the scale of some of these bets that have made people suspect insider information was at play?

So here in the U.S., a key distinction in all of this and whether it like counts as insider trading or not gets into gambling versus trading in commodities.

Can you explain that?

Which is stuff that's normally traded on the markets, like the stock market that we do the numbers on every day here at Marketplace.

These futures contracts that are regulated by the CFTC are regulated, but unlike stocks,

People might be surprised to learn that insider trading on those commodities wasn't actually illegal until 2010.

Why was that?

And so what pushed Congress to eventually ban insider trading on commodities?

We're going to get more into the current day and what's going on with these prediction markets when we come back.

We're going to take a quick break.

We will be right back.

All right.

We are back with Marketplace's Megan McCarty Carino.

And in your reporting on prediction markets and potential insider trading, you've talked with some folks who think that insider trading on prediction markets is actually a good thing, similar to what you were saying with sort of the crop predictions and things.

Lay out a bit more of the argument for why in the current landscape, especially when we're talking about geopolitical issues and even sports, why insider trading could be a good thing.

I think a lot of this, though, gets to people's sense of fairness as well.

Like they want to think if they're getting on calci or poly market that, you know, they've got as much of a chance as anybody else of winning.

But when some folks have access to information that not everybody else does, it doesn't seem fair.

And it seems like the prediction markets themselves are kind of in that bucket because they say they're taking steps to curb insider trading on their platforms.

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