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Ryan Avent says that if I hate political prediction markets so much, why don’t I bet on them and make a bunch of money. Well, I don’t do that because it seems to me that it would call my professional work into question. I don’t want it to be the case that if I say stuff about the candidates I get accused of trying to juice my contracts.

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