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10 November 2016updated 12 Oct 2023 11:09am

Election Profit Makers – the podcast that captured how we feel about the 2016 US election

A show about making money on political betting markets ended up being about much, much more.

By Caroline Crampton

“She was already trading at ten cents by 10 o’clock.”

Hearing these words spoken on the last-ever episode of the Election Profit Makers podcast really put the events of the past 48 hours into context. Like many of my friends and colleagues, I stayed up all night on 8 November, hoping to see Hillary Clinton elected as the next President of the United States. We were clinging on, hoping that she could still do it in the early hours of the morning, but the election-related markets on PredictIt.org (the trading website that EPM is focused on) already knew what the outcome would be. Clinton’s stock was junk.

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