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Traditional businesses invest in projects in two main ways. They either buy equity directly or issue debt. Over time, pricing tends to converge around cumulative returns. Any deviation either harms the investor or the customers, leading to eventual dissipation. This kind of investment endures only if it manages to limit supply. A prime example is the local ramen shop; once people develop a taste for it, returning customers are willing to pay, which attracts long-term investors targeting the accumulated profits. These markets build on dividends, much like real estate.

Betting disrupts this cycle. Placing bets on a third-party business without investing directly can raise concerns. The wager amount can far exceed the value of the targeted event. For example, betting millions on whether more than a hundred customers will enter a restaurant today involves a much smaller scale event. Various tactics can manipulate outcomes, creating hardships for the diligent employees and owners of the restaurant. This isn't necessarily cheating. Potential clients of the likely bet winner might avoid the restaurant. Information providers may demand payment for data. In extreme cases, the losing party might fund a reduced turnaround, justifying it as part of the betting process. By betting on someone's well being the better may finance their downturn.

Betting on personal and private matters presents even more problematic issues. Large-scale betting can cause significant troubles for cities, hence it is often prohibited or controlled. Betting alters the strong connection between rates and risks, changing the rate-matching curve of banks.

Large-scale betting can amplify risks, whereas the economy aims to reduce them. Consequently, betting tends to avoid free and transparent markets.

Even when the bet amount is smaller than the economic value of an event, it can still cause issues. Betting a few cents on a restaurant's turnaround can distort risks. Such a restaurant might manipulate data to collect this money without providing actual value in return. Derivative markets can capture extra earnings from new participants, who may not understand the event's value or control the timing of fluctuations. This can result in small stakeholders facing higher risks, ultimately stifling economic growth.

To mitigate these issues, smart societies regulate betting by limiting its place, time, and scale, and often enforcing transparency rules to ensure it does not manipulate the financial system's risk matching.

Trading on par closes the economic circle. Such securities are far away from betting with a leverage. Recurring economic circles reduce market volatility.