The next question that needs to be asked, is the criminalization of insider trading justified? Albeit, a moralistic contempt for the vice of greed in insider traders provides a motivation, but one’s own vice of envy for easy money made by insider traders offers another explanation. For better or worse, insider trading has been made a level of evil disproportionate to its economic impact.
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