Inside the Wild Stock Market for Politics Where Traders Bet On Our Next President

How PredictIt turned a chaotic election into a haven for political junkies looking to make a buck

Jean-Luc Bouchard
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13 min readOct 27, 2020

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Illustration: Shira Inbar

Right now someone, somewhere, is trying to make money off the latest news cycle. When the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping the globe, people began flipping hand

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Jean-Luc Bouchard
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Bylines in Vox, VICE, The Paris Review, BuzzFeed, and more. Contributor to The Onion. Check out my work here: jeanlucbouchard.com.