"There was no discernible reason for these sudden jumps occurring at 6:50 am, normally a fairly sleepy time for premarket trading. But when Trump’s 7:05 am announcement about all those productive conversations predictably drove oil prices down, and stocks rebounded, those 6:50 am traders made bank. In just a few moments, those anonymous and fortunate folks made roughly $580 million."

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #profiteering #morality
/19

"How else do you explain that about 15 minutes before Trump’s surprise announcement of how hunky dory talks were going, there was a sharp increase in purchases of stock market and oil futures?"

~ Lisa Needham

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/18

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trumpism-death-of-truth

"And like you can bet on preposterous, dystopian life and death things that like, of course, nobody should be able to gamble on. Right. Like, I think we all sort of understand that, like, this is a Black Mirror episode when we're gambling on like which, you know, part of Tehran is going to be bombed on what day."

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/17

"The reason people are getting so upset about these markets and the reason that politicians now are introducing bills to rein them in is because you can gamble on Iranian missile strikes and, you know, how many deportations will take place in America and whether Gaza will experience a famine."

McKay Coppins

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/16

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-america-learned-to-stop-worrying

"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."

~ Brian Beutler

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/15

https://www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all-of-trumps-war-profiteering