That's an interesting idea! Finding the 'victim' in insider trading is complicated as well because it is typically someone who would have made a trade but didn'

That's an interesting idea! Finding the 'victim' in insider trading is complicated as well because it is typically someone who would have made a trade but didn't, so how do you know who they are? There was a Planet Money podcast about this [0] that if I remember correctly said it wasn't even explicitly illegal in the US until relatively recently. It was considered theft to take insider knowledge, but not illegal to trade on it. [0] I think it's this one: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/23/460689797/episode-671-an-insider-trader-tells-all https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/23/460689797/epis...