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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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