Polymarket's "Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?" sits at 14¢. The price has held through eighteen months of attrition warfare, drone strikes on Moscow, and steady Western speculation about Kremlin instability, which tells you traders read all of it as noise over a structure that has not moved. Kalshi's H200 compute-per-hour contract, resolving today, stayed pinned at 96¢ all session, the $4.99 floor treated as settled before the closing print arrived, a near-consensus read that fits the broader GPU pricing environment heading into the second half of 2026. Polymarket prices a 2026 US recession at 12¢ while the NY Fed model and the FRED T10Y3M spread imply something closer to 29¢, an eighteen-point gap that sits awkwardly beside the CFTC's simultaneous push for public comment on event-contract data reporting, since tighter disclosure would tend to surface the informational edge these markets claim over macro models, not bury it. Pete Buttigieg leads the Democratic 2028 field on Polymarket at 4¢, which describes a wide-open race rather than a market with a view.
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Lead
Economics · Polymarket
Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the July 2026 meeting?
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Top movers
SpaceX's $2.0, 2.5T cap contract jumping 23 points to 94¢ dominates the session, while everything else barely twitched.
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Top volume
Putin-out-by-year-end drew five times the volume of the next busiest contract while sitting at 14¢, so the money concentrated precisely where the price has the least room to move.
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Divergence — the ledger
Polymarket and Kalshi together price a 2026 US recession at 12¢. The combined FRED T10Y3M and NY Fed model output reads 29 cents. Seventeen points separate two methodologies nominally watching the same event, and that is too wide to call noise; either the yield-curve signal is stale against what traders already know, or the traders are discounting what the macro data has begun to say. The gap is the sharpest divergence on the board.
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Politics
Polymarket's contract on Pete Buttigieg taking the 2028 Democratic nomination sits at 4¢ on $153K of 24-hour volume, the long-shot arithmetic of a race with no declared candidates and no primary calendar, which makes the light selling the data point worth watching rather than the level. Whatever the Supreme Court's week of consequential rulings did to Democratic fortunes, it moved that contract by less than a penny.
How socialists took over the Democratic Party
How socialists took over the Democratic Party — washingtonexaminer.com
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Geopolitics
A 14-cent probability that Putin exits the Russian presidency before the end of next year has barely moved on a week when Ukrainian strikes forced a rare Kremlin admission about domestic fuel shortages, the kind of operational visibility that, historically, precedes domestic political pressure. Two points in twenty-four hours on $1.6M of volume is activity, not a reprice. The contract remains a long shot, and the market is treating the fuel-shortage headline as noise.
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Economics
Polymarket's contract on SpaceX's market cap landing in the $2.0T, $2.5T band at IPO-month close repriced from roughly 71¢ to 94¢ in a single session on $56K of volume, a 23-point move that converts yesterday's meaningful doubt into near-certainty. The timing is the strange part. Gold is heading for its worst quarter in over a decade, the Supreme Court has reasserted constraints on executive control of the Fed, and a fresh tariff threat now points at European tech firms, conditions that usually widen discount rates and compress private-growth valuations rather than ratify them at the top of an already-ambitious range.
Futures Drop , Chips Resume Slide As OpenAI IPO Delay Dents Sentiment
Futures Drop , Chips Resume Slide As OpenAI IPO Delay Dents Sentiment — zerohedge.com
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Culture
Kalshi's contract on the location of a Swift-Kelce wedding sits at 84¢, up 5 points in 24 hours on $22K of volume, near-consensus for an event with no confirmed date, no venue, and no public announcement behind it. The price tracks a cultural expectation rather than a reported fact, and that gap is the whole story.
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Science & Tech / AI
Kalshi's H200 compute-price contract, asking whether the per-hour rate stays above $4.99 through June 30, sits at 96¢ on $34K of daily volume, near-consensus and unmoved by a week in which the Magnificent Seven shed $2.3 trillion in market cap. GPU rents and AI-infrastructure equity have historically moved in step; a 96¢ contract holding firm while the stocks sell off is the rare week they part ways.
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News — last 72 hours
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The rest of the money
The day's largest market, category rules notwithstanding: Will Morocco win the 2026 FIFA World Cup?, $16.0M of 24-hour volume, 10 times the deepest market in this issue (Polymarket).