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by kortilla 876 days ago
>Maybe we should make insider trading, trading off information that isn’t public.

This is stupid. It disincentivizes people who make a living externally auditing/investigating companies

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> This is stupid.

Why? Trading implies making stock trades based on non-public information. This has little to do with auditing and investigating, since that information is not necessarily public.

Investigating is non public information.