Better Markets
Better Markets appears in U.S. regulators eye rules for prediction markets as Ben Schifrin’s organization in the prediction-market regulation discussion. The source uses Schifrin’s Better Markets perspective to frame prediction markets as a regulatory mismatch for the CFTC when event contracts begin to resemble gambling or political-intelligence trading.
The organization’s wiki role is as a policy voice arguing that prediction-market corruption risk is not confined to one platform or one type of event. It connects financial regulation to Prediction Market Integrity Oversight and Event Contract Manipulation Risk.
Do prediction market bettors make anything better? adds Amanda Fisher as the Better Markets voice. She compares Kalshi’s strategy to legal-risk playbooks in which companies expand first and wait for regulators or courts to catch up, making Better Markets part of the wiki’s Prediction Market Legal Boundary branch as well as the integrity branch.
Connections
- Ben Schifrin - Better Markets expert quoted in the episode.
- Amanda Fisher - Better Markets critic quoted in the April 2026 Planet Money source.
- CFTC - regulator at the center of the policy discussion.
- Prediction Market Ethics, Prediction Market Legal Boundary, and Prediction Market Integrity Oversight - prediction-market concepts extended by the sources.