Gary Gensler (Former Chairman) 00:00.821
look it it's interesting all capital markets have a feature of prediction we predict the price of a stock or its earnings economic predictions we predict the price of corn or wheat and that's important for farmers and merchants to hedge their risk i think that there's two issues
Gary Gensler (Former Chairman) 00:20.421
one is is it well regulated with transparency and we we protect against fraud and so forth and two and this is a long held view is if if it's hard to ensure for the integrity of the market and it's harder to ensure for the integrity in things around sports and around politics
Gary Gensler (Former Chairman) 00:43.121
and it's just it's trickier and and so i think that it's really important to make sure that we don't undermine either our political system or our sport system in these prediction markets but we have to recognize we have prediction markets for weather events and that's probably a
Gary Gensler (Former Chairman) 01:06.361
helpful thing for people to hedge severe weather risk