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The substance behind the headlines.

Financial Markets, Insider Trading, Law, Law & Politics, Markets & Trading, National Security

April 25, 2026

Insider Trading on Polymarket: The First Criminal Case, and the Bigger Ones Still Anonymous

For fifteen years, there has been a legal framework in the United States for criminally prosecuting insider trading in commodities and derivatives markets. It…

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Financial Markets, Insider Trading, Law, Law & Politics, Markets & Trading, National Security

April 25, 2026

Insider Trading on Polymarket: The First Criminal Case, and the Bigger Ones Still Anonymous

For fifteen years, there has been a legal framework in the United States for criminally prosecuting insider trading in commodities and derivatives markets. It…

Foreign Policy, History, Papal Authority, Politics, Religion and Politics

April 21, 2026

What Popes Do

On the letter from Minab, and why grieving Iranian parents wrote to an American pope by R Tamara de Silva There is a line…

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Financial Markets, Geopolitics & Markets, Insider Trading, Law, Markets & Trading, National Security

April 18, 2026

Another Hormuz Trade, Another $760 Million Question: The Insider Trading Pattern in Oil Futures

On Friday, someone bet about $760 million that oil prices would fall. Twenty minutes later, Iran’s foreign minister announced that the Strait of Hormuz…