How do prediction markets settle their bets? | The Economist @TheEconomist
How do prediction markets settle their bets? | The Economist @TheEconomist
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Prediction-market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket let their users bet on world events. But when outcomes are ambiguous, who gets to decide what happened?

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