[Reelect President Dubya]

According to the "insider trading" laws, if I work for a company that I think is a really good company and tell people to buy the stock because of all the great products coming down the pike, I could be guilty of a crime.

And they call this the "Land of the Free?"

[fight_truth_decay]

Buy on RUMOR, sell on News!

[Tamzee]

"According to the "insider trading" laws, if I work for a company that I think is a really good company and tell people to buy the stock because of all the great products coming down the pike, I could be guilty of a crime. And they call this the "Land of the Free?" "

Yes, because that information doesn't belong to you, that information belongs to the owners (the same way the vault combination number doesn't belong to the president of a bank even though he "knows" it). And since trading shares on the public market creates such a large pool of owners, that information has to become available to all of them equally and at the same time.