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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. It seems like anything

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Speaker 1: Why do you think that is what is unique about

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we're really at this unique pivotal moment

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Speaker 2: in our history where many have lost faith in traditional

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Speaker 2: relying on social media, prediction markets, Twitter, so you know,

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Speaker 2: all sorts of new media.

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Speaker 3: Sources, and that's not a bad thing.

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Speaker 2: I think as Americans we need to explore different avenues

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Speaker 2: for getting our information. But prediction markets aren't new. They've

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Speaker 2: been around for a long time. New exchanges are offering

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Speaker 2: all manner of new informational products, from predicting sports to

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Speaker 2: political events to the price of oil with all the

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Speaker 2: a good thing for society.

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Speaker 1: You wrote this interesting op ed in the Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Journal last month about how event contracts serve legitimate economic functions.

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Speaker 1: They allow businesses and individuals to hedge even driven risks,

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Speaker 1: enable investors to manage portfolio exposure, provide the public with

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Speaker 1: information about the outcome of future events. I think that

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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense for people when they look

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Speaker 1: at certain elements of prediction markets, when they look at

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Speaker 1: the price of oil, or they look at interest rates.

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Speaker 1: But things that are sort of more consumables, more entertainment,

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Speaker 1: like who's going to win Season fifty of survivor for example,

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Speaker 1: like what's the legitimate economic function of a contract like that?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, people are hedging all sorts of different risks.

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Speaker 2: As a regulator, it's not my job to tell them

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Speaker 2: some of these products maybe are more for speculation, more

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Speaker 2: for you know, entertainment. The markets aren't designed just for

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Speaker 2: hedgers or just for certain things that have you risk

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Speaker 2: management aspect to them.

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Speaker 3: Derivatives or derivatives.

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Speaker 2: We have broad authority over derivatives and we regulate the

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Speaker 2: markets for derivatives. Each exchange, as an SRO, has the

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Speaker 2: responsibility to evaluate the products that it lists. It has

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Speaker 2: It certifies that to us as a regulator, and we

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Speaker 2: review that application to go and list in self surify

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Speaker 3: Of course, is on the exchange is to evaluate products.

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Speaker 2: We're not doing that as a kind of merit based

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Speaker 2: important that each product has integrity and that they're not

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Speaker 1: Are there certain products or certain contracts that could be

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly there's a range of different products out there,

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Speaker 3: That said, other products, right, you have controls.

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Speaker 2: And you ensure that there's not the ability to misappropriate

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Speaker 3: So it's important to enforce that in our markets.

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Speaker 2: We have the same risks in our securities markets, and

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Speaker 3: So we do set rules and we enforce them.

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Speaker 2: And some products, of course, are more susceptible than others,

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Speaker 1: When you're in school, when you were doing a training,

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Speaker 1: It still sits squarely in sports markets. Why is betting

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Speaker 2: We have a very standardized system where you have a

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Speaker 2: products and their structure, very differently from for example, gambling.

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Speaker 2: The underlying asset, I think is what you're pointing to, right,

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Speaker 3: Bellies as the underlying of the derivative. To us, we're agnostic.

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Speaker 2: We have a very broad definition of commodity under our statute,

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Speaker 2: and so we're not picking. Okay, these sports products are

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Speaker 2: gambling because they're you know, the underlying sports. We treat

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people out there right now

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Speaker 1: I have to be twenty one to do that, But

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Speaker 2: For like a normal person, It really is no different

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Speaker 2: Just like with an insurance contract, they typically can't be

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Speaker 1: So I want to talk a little bit about sort

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Speaker 1: what should be constitute like a death market or not.

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Speaker 1: In your speech yesterday, you said that regulated you're regulating

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Speaker 1: How do you apply that minimum effective dose to geopolitical

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Speaker 2: Well self FLA Regulatory organizations like exchanges have the obligation

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Speaker 2: When you have a contract around a political event that

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Speaker 2: a war market. That's something the exchangers have to think about.

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Speaker 2: That's not you know, we're not in the business of

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Speaker 3: So it's an important question. It's one that the exchangers

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Speaker 2: of course it's very important to tether some of these

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Speaker 1: People often lump CALSHI and poly market together, but they

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Speaker 2: Well, the Biden administration actually drove poly Market out of

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Speaker 1: But is there a chance that we're sitting here maybe

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Speaker 2: a blockchain can do so here in the United States.

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Speaker 2: It's really unacceptable to be pushing all this stuff offshore

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Speaker 2: simply because it's different type of technology. The Clarity Act

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Speaker 2: it'll help future proof our crypto markets by ensuring that

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Speaker 2: things are in statute, and the Supreme Court said very

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Speaker 2: there's a risk that the agency doesn't have the same

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Speaker 2: sort of difference on some of the authority of the

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Speaker 2: our derivative markets, of course, over anti fraud and anti manipulation,

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Speaker 2: the spot markets, and then to the extent in exchange

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Speaker 2: is offering margin trading that's also within our authority. So

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Speaker 2: there's a lot we can do with without legislation.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are thinking about just

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Speaker 1: person power at the CFTC, and I'm wondering enforcement staff.

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Speaker 1: The Chicago office doesn't have any enforcement stuff. I know

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Speaker 1: of hiring people there or other commissioners to be appointed.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just brought on a new enforcement director and

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Speaker 2: he's quickly staffing up and building out that capability. And

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Speaker 2: it's very important to have, you know, folks in each

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Speaker 2: operating kind of like a Starbucks model where you have,

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Speaker 2: you know, an office on.

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Speaker 3: Every block with with people in it.

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Speaker 2: We've got a critical mass in DC and that's where

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Speaker 2: a lot of our enforcement attorneys are housed. We've got

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Speaker 2: and in Kansas City. So we'll continue to build out

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Speaker 2: personnel and each office. But we're also in a world

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Speaker 2: much more with less individuals. So I'm not concerned about

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Speaker 2: being able to fill our obligations. But I'm always excited

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Speaker 2: to bring on people that are willing to help support

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