Ex-Microsofties face 20 years in slammer over insider trading A former Microsoft senior manager is facing up to 20 years in jail and millions in fines and compensation over allegations he shared confidential information about the firm with his friend and business partner. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint alleging Brian Jorgenson had handed off insider …
A "market" is not a zero-sum game. The whole point of a market is that EVERYONE is better off.
Is the stockmarket a zero-sum game? It is difficult to decide with all the new money from nowhere rushes into it from everywhere. Maybe it is just a way to get a piece of the pie. Of course, the stockmarket in its current form turns to frank buccaneering when the raging exponential collapses, so you better get out early.
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The stock market is not zero-sum. There are a few reasons for this:
1) Companies pay dividends to investors (at least some do) this means there is a gradual flow of money into the investors.
2) Investors are able to sit out of the market. Therefore you get flows of money in and out of the market as people either move into other markets, or move into cash.
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Inside trading would be the least that they are guilty of, LIBOR Rigging, Commodities Pricing Fraud (for T.P.T.B.), Morgage Fraud, Derivatives Fraud etc.; outright fraud and extortion as a business model, more like! They are the big mafia fish, which government criminally give our taxes to rather than force them to face the consequences (jail included) of their fraud; moral hazard to fracking infinity!
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