{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6244d1918dd186001211b37a/69e072f8907e5a7cc2425ceb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why experts suspect insider trading in the White House","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6244d1918dd186001211b37a/1776317162041-f3a1faf5-d58c-44be-81e7-f44665bdfff4.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>If it walks, talks and quacks like a duck… is it insider trading?<em> </em>Journalist Lachlan Keller joins the podcast to explain the suspicious pattern of behaviour that has lead experts and analysts to believe people within the Trump administration are using insider trading to make huge, lucrative bets on global news events.</p><p><br></p><p>We discuss the major oil commodities trades made just hours before Trump announced the US-Iran ceasefire, how prediction market platforms like Polymarket could be influencing the behaviour of White House staffers, and why the $TRUMP meme coin is the perfect case study for how the Trump family profiteers off his presidency.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/09/donald-trump-insider-trading-iran-ceasefire-oil-polymarket/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$1.4bn was bet on oil falling mere hours before Trump’s Iran ceasefire. It follows a pattern of suspected insider trading</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/16/trump-wfli-memecoin-price-crypto-rugpull-donald-trump/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Has $TRUMP pulled off the world’s most brazen crypto scam?</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/09/usa-alliance-anthony-albanese-labor-donald-trump/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us</a></li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Crikey"}