All Posts Tagged With: "insider trading"
Making Whistle-Blowing Pay
The federal bureaucracies are hard at work churning out rules to implement the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” act. In May the Securities and Exchange Commission announced rules for its new whistleblower program, which rewards individuals who provide the agency with “high-quality tips that lead to successful enforcement acts.” The minimum amount of recovered funds that can [...]
21Sep2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 2 comments | ContinuedInside Insider Trading
Insider trading is something we hear a lot about these days. To most people, the practice smells of foul play, and federal law restricts it. But the inside story of insider trading is something very different, as we shall see. The alleged ill effects on shareholders in particular and on the economy in general are [...]
22Dec2010 | Warren C. Gibson | 23 comments | ContinuedLibertarian Paternalism: A Test
Behavioral economics is a growing subfield of economics based on the finding that people are not as rational as economic models have traditionally assumed. Numerous experiments have shown that people’s choices are systematically altered in response to changes in how those choices are framed, even though the framing is irrelevant to the consequences of those [...]
1Jul2007 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Free Martha? To the Editor: I was surprised to read January’s “Perspective” on Martha Stewart. If she lied when she said “she had a standing order to sell the stock if the price went below $60.00,” and that statement was made in the context of a criminal investigation, she could be guilty of obstruction of [...]
1Apr2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Logic and Morality of Takeovers
The late Norman Barry was a professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. Of all the features of the market, the takeover process is still the most reviled. Assailed by moralists for encouraging greed and antisocial individualism and for breaking up stable communities; by some economists for its alleged [...]
1Jul2000 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | Continued-
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