Insider Trading: A Crime for the Smart and Dumb, High and Low
The term insider trading conjures up images of sophisticated Wall Streeters or "expert networks" engaged in complex white collar crimes and pocketing millions. But often that is not the reality, and a...
View ArticleThe Greedy Wife: Annabel McClellan's Insider Trading
Here's a nightmare scenario: You're a top corporate tax lawyer involved in mergers and acquisitions. You talk openly about the deals with your wife, who used to be in business herself but is now a part...
View ArticleBanning Congressional Inside Trading: Not So Easy
The SEC's top enforcement official, Robert Khuzami, is all for stopping members of Congress from insider trading. But he wants Congress to tread carefully in enacting such a ban. As he said recently in...
View ArticleMyths and Facts on Congressional Insider Trading
This is required reading, from the website of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, who has been a leader in pushing to ban congressional insider trading. The document below is from 2006, but as illuminating...
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