Showing posts with label insider trading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insider trading. Show all posts

Carol Roth: It's Time To Legalize Insider Trading

A subtle and sophisticated understanding.       M&A (mergers and acquisitions) is on fire again, and according to a new study from professors at the Stern School of Business at NYU and McGill University, so is insider trading. The study says that up to a quarter of all M&A deals may foster some level of insider trading. As insider trading is clearly      ... MORE

John Stossel: Legalize Insider Trading

Think about it.  Insider trading leads the news again, casting a cloud over Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors $14 billion hedge fund. The SEC charged Mathew Martoma, who used to manage a SAC Capital division, with using inside information about tests on an Alzheimer's drug to trade stock of the company working on it. The media love this stuff.   ... MORE

Carol Roth: Insider Trading Should Be Legalized

Information makes the market efficient.   Former SAC Capital trader Mathew Martoma’s insider trading investigation is just one of a bevy of high-profile insider trading cases that have come to light in the past few years and I think spending time and effort on these cases is a farce. Should the allegations prove to be true, I am not        ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Defending The Undefendable


Price gouging, ticket scalping, child labor, organ selling, insider trading and more.