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Fine, this feels needlessly pedantic but let me correct myself. Good enforcement is impossible without subjecting anybody trading stocks and everybody they know to a completely unp…

This doesn’t make any sense. Such activities would be criminal regardless of insider trading. What difference could it possibly make if insider trading was legal? Should we maybe a…

It’s important to understand that the usual argument against insider trading isn’t actually about true fairness, but rather the impression of fairness . These are two different thi…

Good enforcement is impossible. You can never meaningfully hinder insider trading, far too many people have access to insider information. They don’t have to make the trades themse…

> If insider trading is legal, you could actively destroy a company from the inside and profit from its downfall. What you are describing is an entirely different kind of misconduc…