CBS News and Kalshi are partnering for the midterms. Kalshi forecasts for key races and control of Congress will complement CBS’s reporting, polling, and expert analysis. Markets aggregate beliefs from millions of Americans and force ideas from all sides to compete in the open, driven by a simple and transparent incentive: to be right. They give someone who spots a mistaken consensus a financial incentive to challenge it: if you think the market has it wrong, you can trade against it and be rewarded. You basically get paid to be right. That opportunity gives people a reason to dig deeper, build better models, find information others missed, and challenge assumptions others take for granted by trading on the knowledge they acquired. Their competing views and collective knowledge become a public forecast that updates in real-time and that we all benefit from, whether we ever place a trade or not. Unlike most sources of information, this information is produced bottom-up, not by elites, but by millions of people researching and trading across the country. And now CBS viewers will have access to it.