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		nradov 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: War prediction markets are a national-security thr... Nonsense. Derivatives have been actively traded in the USA at least since 1848 (and even earlier in other countries). Nothing was better about the world in 1847.

egberts1 27 days ago [–]

The Dutch? Early 1500s?

That is what my reading recollection is recalling on 'derivative-like".

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