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Marker’s Weekend Reads: Election Betting Markets, Halloween While Black, Reviewing Stratechery

People wait in line outside of a Masonic temple in Brooklyn as early voting begins on October 24, 2020, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Looking for a great read this weekend? Marker’s editorial team has compiled a list of some of the thought-provoking articles on Medium that we’ve been reading and talking about. Enjoy your weekend and happy reading (and highlighting!).

With the election approaching, there’s at least one website benefitting from all the chaos: PredictIt. Marker’s Senior Platform Editor Jean-Luc Bouchard takes us inside this wild stock market where more than 100,000 traders are vying to make a quick buck on a wide swath of political outcomes, including Kayne’s presidential bid and the ramifications of Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis. It’s a fascinating look at how markets work — and what they might tell us about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
— Bobbie Gossage, Deputy Editor, Marker

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

Covid-19 might have squashed many families’ trick-or-treating plans this year, but LEVEL’s senior platform editor, Jada Gomez, remembers fondly…