Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
***This is an excerpt from the coming Sunday Morning Thoughts, to be sent to subscribers before the sun rises April 12, 2026.
1. This is how you know NO ONE knows what will happen next.
Hang up the disco ball, and turn on Boney M.’s Rasputin for this one, or take a shot. Your choice.
Google News is now serving up Polymarket gambling odds alongside actual journalism.
This is how you now know NO ONE knows what will happen next.
Futurism reports:
Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets
“The bets often appear in the “For you” section of Google News, which is tailored to a user’s personal interests. In one instance, it was even the very top result, as with this bet on the price of Bitcoin.
In our testing, Polymarket bets are also showing up on the Google News home page.
But links from the prediction market can pop up all over Google News, including in searches. In further tests, looking up “will ships transit the strait,” referring to the Strait of Hormuz, returned numerous credible sources like Financial Times, The Guardian, and Reuters. Just below them, however, was a Polymarket bet on the number of ships that would be allowed to pass through the critical oil passageway.”
Prediction markets dress speculation in the language of analysis fixing percentages to geopolitical chaos as if crowd-sourced gambling is wisdom. It’s more like the Gonzo reporting of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas entering the world of every day news.
This is what happens when the financialization of everything is taken to its logical conclusion: Even uncertainty itself becomes a product to trade with people betting their future on whatever may be… Because right now, the future is as wildly unpredictable.
For most people, desperation may as well be exciting. *shrug*