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by Retric 2316 days ago
Stock trading is over 400 hundred years old so terms like insider trading are meaningful even without a strict definition. The SEC’s role is one of clarification not lawmaking.

Consider, the proposed law uses the word espionage does that cover say counting the number of trucks leaving a factory? That’s the kind of thing where any specific choice is reasonable as long as everyone operates under the same rules.