Kalshi and Polymarket might loosely be thought of as Betfair on steroids with minimal regulation. Some markets are seemingly designed for manipulation and insider trading, such as the number of tweet… (View Post)

Forget the price and the bills that take up most of that story and focus on the end: shortages. If there is no petrol, the price doesn't matter. The really bad news, as we saw after SMO inflatio… (View Post)

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Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep bombing Iran after Donald Trump called off strikes against Tehran’s energy facilities. “We are continuing to strike in both Iran and Lebanon,” the Israeli prime minis… (View Post)

Lung cancer? Smoker? Caused by smoking. Lung cancer? Non-smoker? Caused by passive smoking. Now smoking rates have dropped and indoor smoking is (mostly) banned, medics are looking round a bit more. (View Post)