{"id":1929,"date":"2026-05-01T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/consumer-advocates-urge-cftc-to-reject-prediction-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:27:00","slug":"consumer-advocates-urge-cftc-to-reject-prediction-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/consumer-advocates-urge-cftc-to-reject-prediction-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Advocates Urge CFTC to Reject Prediction Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p>CFTC Proposal Would Turn Consumer Protection Agency Into Nation&#8217;s Gambling Czar Washington, D.C. \u2014 On Thursday, Demand Progress Education Fund, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and Public Citizen submitted a comment letter urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to reject any efforts to bring \u201cevents contracts\u201d on sports, entertainment, policy or political outcomes traded &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/demandprogress.org\/consumer-advocates-urge-cftc-to-reject-prediction-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/demandprogress.org\/consumer-advocates-urge-cftc-to-reject-prediction-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consumer Advocates Urge CFTC to Reject Prediction Markets<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/demandprogress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demand Progress<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/demandprogress.org\/consumer-advocates-urge-cftc-to-reject-prediction-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  demandprogress.org<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CFTC Proposal Would Turn Consumer Protection Agency Into Nation&#8217;s Gambling Czar Washington, D.C. \u2014 On Thursday, Demand Progress Education Fund, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and Public Citizen submitted a comment letter urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to reject any efforts to bring \u201cevents contracts\u201d on sports, entertainment, policy or political outcomes traded &#8230; Continued The post Consumer&hellip;","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}