Amanda Fisher

Amanda Fisher appears in Do prediction market bettors make anything better? as a Better Markets policy voice and former SEC chief of staff critiquing Kalshi’s strategy. The episode uses her comments to frame prediction-market growth as legal arbitrage rather than a simple technology breakthrough.

Her argument is that event-market companies can exploit the gap between derivatives regulation and gambling law while regulators catch up. She also stresses the oversight-capacity problem: the CFTC is much smaller than the SEC and relies heavily on exchange self-policing, which becomes strained when markets look like sports betting, political wagering, or insider-information trading.

Connections

• Better Markets - organization where she appears in this source.
• Kalshi and CFTC - company and regulator she critiques.
• Prediction Market Legal Boundary, Prediction Market Integrity Oversight, and Event Contract Manipulation Risk - main concepts her comments support.