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Kalshi may be good for more than just making a quick buck.A new research paper published by a trio of Federal Reserve economists suggests that the prediction market platform is a useful method for measuring macroeconomic expectations — and it may even be better than some traditional methods.”Our results suggest that Kalshi markets provide a high-frequency, continuously updated, distributionally rich benchmark that is valuable to both researchers and policymakers,” the researchers wrote.The researchers found that Kalshi actually beat traditional methods for two different purposes.The first was on forecasting inflation. The researchers found that when it comes to headline consumer price…

Peter Attia, the prominent longevity doctor and CBS contributor who is under scrutiny for his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has vanished from a list of advisors for a sleep technology company.Attia had been prominently showcased as one of three members of Eight Sleep’s scientific advisory board, a post he had held since May 14, 2024. His photo no longer appears as part of the panel on the company homepage.Company officials and Attia did not respond to requests for comment. It’s not clear exactly when his name and photo were removed, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine shows they…