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How Should We Teach Kids About Gambling?

Editor’s Note: This was originally published on menonline.org

When I started speaking with students and teachers about gambling, I was struck by how many of the students most interested in sports betting were also the strongest math studen...

10 days ago
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Prediction Market Ads are Out of Control

Editor’s Note: This was originally published in City Journal.

Americans are betting billions on prediction markets, staking money on everything from elections to album sales to football games. Legally speaking, though, they aren’t betting...

24 days ago
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Prediction Markets Don't Need Villains

Last Sunday, Netflix released Instadocs: The Prediction Games, a 36-minute documentary on prediction markets. I appear briefly, drinking Capri-Sun and representing the sharps—the traders who win.1 The production focused on the two largest p...

a month ago
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How to Regulate Sports Prediction Markets

The case against sports prediction markets is loud, and not hard to understand. An increasingly lightly-staffed federal regulator is suddenly overseeing products that look, to most people, an awful lot like sports betting. State regulators...

2 months ago
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Kalshi’s Favorite Lie

Unlike traditional sportsbooks, prediction markets like Kalshi are not betting against their users. They pair bettors against each other and take a fee, which means they do not care who wins. Sportsbooks take the other side of users’ bets a...

4 months ago
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    Sports bettor writing about sports betting. Gambling Research and policy Fellow at The American Institute for Boys and Men. isaacroseberman.com

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    Author of "Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling" and "For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America."

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