Insider trading
South Seas Bubble of 1720: the First Major Manipulation of Financial Markets
| Video Economist| The first major manipulation of financial markets. Today we look at the South Seas bubble of 1720. The South Sea Company was a British investment company that collapsed in 1720 due to a speculative bubble, the South…
How Steve Cohen walked away from the biggest insider trading scandal
| Business Insider | In her new book “Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street,” author Sheelah Kolhatkar chronicles the incredible story of the biggest insider trading scandal…
- 2017
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Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
| CBS | In 2011, Steve Kroft reported that members of Congress could legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill.
- 2019
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Rajat Gupta on rebuilding his life nearly seven years after insider trading conviction
| CNBC | CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interviews Rajat Gupta, who served 19 months in prison on federal insider trading charges. This is his first interview since being released from prison in 2016.
- 2019
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Insider Trading And Congress: How Lawmakers Get Rich From The Stock Market
| CNBC | In spring 2020, four U.S. senators faced accusations of using insider knowledge about the coronavirus crisis to sell off hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock. A couple of months later, the investigations into senators Kelly Loeffler…
- 2020
- Insider trading
To Catch a Trader
| Frontline | Correspondent Martin Smith goes inside the government’s ongoing, seven-year crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively-obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps of other traders, and interviews with both Wall Street and…
- 2014
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