Latif Nasser
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1,920 appearances
26 recordings
8 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 14 Aug
Latif Nasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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government in 2022 for failing to comply with federal regulations.
All this until last year, when President Trump appointed a new chair to the CFTC, a guy named Michael Selig.
He was chief counsel of the crypto task force at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But others say there are real concerns about how prediction markets are being used.
For example, the New York Times recently did a close examination of polymarket users.
It identified some 11,000 accounts that raised, quote, warning signs.
That included successful long-shot bets, extremely well-timed wagers by new accounts, and bettors who gambled on a specific topic without ever losing.
A lot of these users focus on military operations, so there's reason to believe the traders may have been people who work for the U.S.
military or the government.
Paul Rohde, Coleman Strump's former colleague, has been following prediction markets for decades.
And he says this ethical question is one he thinks about not just in terms of what's happening with prediction markets now, but where they're likely to go in the future.
Back in 2003, the economist Robin Hansen looked on as that feeling of disgust swallowed up his DARPA project, the policy analysis market.
But watching what's happening with prediction markets today, he says he's excited.
He hopes this is just the beginning of a future where prediction markets are a much bigger part of our lives.
You sound so optimistic, and then there's this part of me that's like, do I want to calculate every decision I ever make?
Like, it gives me anxiety.
Coleman Strumpf went from watching horse racing as a kid to studying prediction markets and says economists have almost always felt more optimistic about prediction markets than regular Americans.
Every time these markets make a comeback, economists want to believe they're back for good.
But as long as Coleman's been studying this history, he says that's never been the case.
It's a repeating cycle, a boom in popularity followed by a crash out.
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