Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
    • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      231·
      3 days ago

      I’m sure they had similar levels of corruption in the Roman, French, Russian, and Germanic empires … riiiiight before they collapsed, too.

      Well, similar levels of naked corruption in what they were doing, but probably not in how much they were profiting.

  • rogsson@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Umm is that a serious question? Everyone knows what is going on. The real question is why they aren’t in death row.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    It’s almost as if US reps (and select friends) are getting filthy rich on their insider information, and it’s spiraling.

    By the time Trump was elected, it’s was already over; we live in interesting times.

    Go ahead and vote, this is not a dissuasion. But, I mean, look at them. Their entire families are making a fortune. And we only know what is declared. Trump’s family, Biden’s family, Supreme Court justices, it’s blatant.

    https://www.fool.com/research/congressional-stock-trading-who-trades-and-makes-the-most/

    the tip of the iceberg, many are over 10K declared trades a year.

  • fisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    It used to be a few tens of thousands of dollars of perfectly timed, suspicious bets. Then it became millions, the hundreds of millions, now a billion. Someone is getting greedy.

    • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I wanna know why Jared Kushner secured a 2 billion dollar deal from his office in the White House during Trumps first term, and Trump didn’t get a cut of it.

      (Daddy Trump always gets his cut…)

      What silence was bought with that deal?

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    4·
    3 days ago

    Arrest, try, and hang those guilty of giving the information. Arrest, try, seize the assets of, and jail anyone who used that information. In an ideal justice system, this would apply to all forms of insider trading and betting. I’d also like to see the people running that marketplace dropped into a lava lake, but that’s another matter.

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    I’d be more upset if it was the stock market instead of barely regulated online casinos.

  • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    I don’t think these stats means much when they completely ignore the vastly larger group of people who guesses the dates wrong and lost money because of it.