Even in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies, industries promoted breathlessly by hype merchants, the superlatives tossed around by the creators of the prediction-markets boom stand out. As the year drew to a close, one founder declared that the markets had become “the most accurate thing we have as mankind right now.” Another promised that they would, in the not-so-distant future, “financialize everything.” Bloomberg's Denitsa Tsekova joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)