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War-betting surges in West amid Trump-era speculative finance trends

Insider trading is increasingly taking hold in the United States, with privileged information increasingly used for massive financial gain.

Bernat Lautaro
Press TV, Caracas

The practice of insider trading—that is, using privileged information to make large sums of money—is becoming widespread in the United States.

This ethically questionable practice is already being used to bet on the life or death of a political leader or on the outcome of an illegal war, such as the joint US-Israeli aggression against Iran.