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Werner Antweiler

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167 total appearances

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The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And he also mentioned the insider information that could be a big problem.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

That is, so one of the prediction markets that are running commercially predicted the outcome, whether or not Maduro would be taken the president of Venezuela.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And of course it did happen.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

There was somebody who actually made a big profit on this.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

We don't know who that person is, but we do know it happened that this person took a profit.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And that really looked a lot like insider information.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And that is a potential when you have events that are happening that are actually determined by individual people or a small circle of people.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

They have knowledge that others don't.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And so they could trade on that.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

With elections, that wasn't possible because elections are determined by millions of people actually go into the ballot boxes.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

But that is not true for many of the events that are being traded upon in these commercial prediction markets.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

Yeah, in the United States, it's actually not really regulated.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

It's a wild west of prediction markets, as I would call it.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

It's a lacking regulation.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And the current administration in the United States is all gung-ho for everything that's crypto and that's,

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

Now, new markets.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And in fact, there is a link to crypto because some of these markets actually are based on accepting crypto currencies for investment.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And so that makes it really hard to actually trace who is actually benefiting.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

And that's precisely this lack of transparency and lack of accountability that leads me to question these markets when it actually opens the door really wide for insider trading.

The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Simple Blueprints to End the World- February 24, 2026

Well, if it's like that, people just want to bet on their sporting outcomes, it's like betting.