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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by Epa095 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @06:38AM (#43663193)
> So there are lots of things that have long been legal in the US that would have been illegal in France, without the economy collapsing.

Who knows, maybe we are in the middle of the resulting collapse now ;-)

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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by eru on Sunday April 13, 2025 @12:30AM (#43670109)
Well, that collapse is because of tariffs, not the intricacies of differences in insider trading law.
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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by Epa095 on Sunday April 13, 2025 @02:57AM (#43670670)
I was thinking more that these kind of lax laws allowed the rich to get richer, and influence politics in ways which enabled or accelerated the fall. But it it a complicated picture of course, and the further back in the chain of causality we go the harder it it to say anything for real.
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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by eru on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @01:28AM (#43701796)
> [...] allowed the rich to get richer, and influence politics [...]

That would have been a better world than the one we live in.

I'd rather have Romney and Bloomberg etc than the populists we got.

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