A federal appeals court ruled Friday that states can regulate prediction markets like gambling, dealing a major blow to the booming industry.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    “The economy,” in this sense, is bullshit. The media uses the term and the stock market interchangeably, but the average person doesn’t. The value of the stock market has zero correlation in the well-being of the average person. It’s only “the economy” for the wealthy, who have significant amounts of money in stocks. Most people care about cost-of-living and income. Neither of those depend on the value of the stock market.

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      3 hours ago

      it DOES have correlation to how tge average person is doing. Take when the stock market goes down sharply for at least a year for example (2008 and 1929-1932) there were negative things happening to the average person.