call me old fashioned but the "hey tom, we're about to close a big deal at work, buy a few shares" prosecutions have always seemed to me as the result of a law enforcement apparatus with too much time on its hands

now the cases where you have willful manipulations of market events are very different but a little patronage skim off of organic market direction isn't much of a crime historically speaking and under a certain analytical light of what a market is supposed to be/do may even be called for to a select extent

questions of maximal economic efficiency come into play as well as those of classism/stagnation of wealth

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