Insider Trading is Very Damaging to Markets and a Terrible Crime …

Interesting bit from Slate (via Business
Insider) from last week tracing
the shockingly good record of Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) employees when it comes to making trades at the
right time in stocks of companies the SEC investigates.Turns out reseachers found “SEC employees tend to sell a
company’s stock before the SEC takes enforcement action against the
company” leading to:
abnormal returns of about 4 percent for […]