Thousands of Amateur Gamblers Are Beating Wall Street Ph.D.s

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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PhDs are continually losing value.

{{ The report ended up showing the U.S. economy had added 130,000 jobs at the start of the year. Both groups had missed the mark by a wide margin — and to similar degrees.

Over the five years that Kalshi has existed, its thousands of gamblers have proved as accurate on average at predicting certain economic indicators as the highly trained forecasters, a working paper published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. The crowd is also pretty good at predicting interest rate decisions from the Federal Reserve, and even better than the professionals at predicting the rate of inflation. }}

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/business/economy/forecasts-prediction-markets-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LlA.avIj._sz-S-V2oyYe&smid=url-share

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Funny

Thousands of Amateur Gamblers? But there are millions of them.

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Or, perhaps as we saw with the attack on Venezuela, these markets are being influenced by the asymmetry of insider information.

In other words, those PhDs are probably the ones cashing in on their insider info - perhaps making their access even more valuable.

Remember last month when the POTUS announced the job numbers a day before anyone was supposed to know?

Trump posted some US jobs data early on his Truth Social account

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appears-have-posted-some-jobs-data-early-2026-01-09/

Ya think someone within the know might be profiting from that knowledge in the betting markets? I sure do.

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