• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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    19 days ago

    You don’t necessarily get common sense with money, especially if you are very wealthy.

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      18 days ago

      Betting markets can be swayed easily by wealth, sure. Another bias is that they’re overwhelmingly frequented by young men.

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      17 days ago

      Definitely. Especially when you also know that the betting markets had Hillary Clinton at 82 percent odds of winning the day before the election and 90 percent odds of UK voters rejecting Brexit. That’s obviously not what happened.