bucket

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Back in 1879, those clerks and salesmen and their wives who frequented bucket shops understood they were operating outside the bounds of Wall Street.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

One way prediction markets resemble the old bucket shops is in the democratization of trading.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Numerous states passed “blue sky laws” to suppress bucket shops, yet the biggest scandal was yet to come.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

From the outside, a bucket shop resembled a legitimate brokerage.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Ratwin launched herself overboard to catch fish, eventually filling a bucket, each fish bearing a small set of tooth marks.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell