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SAC and the Strange Focus on Insider Trading

Harvard Business Review

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. So, on balance, having a futures market appears better than not having a futures market.

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