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> Your Warren Buffet example would absolutely be illegal. My understanding is that it very much depends upon how the information was obtained. If I, as a third
by alasdair_ 4y ago
> Your Warren Buffet example would absolutely be illegal.
My understanding is that it very much depends upon how the information was obtained. If I, as a third party, overhear Warren talking in a restaurant, that’s very different from hearing it during a Berkshire board meeting.
Of course, everything, everywhere, is securities fraud. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everything-everywhere-is-securities-fraud https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
- seanhunter 4y agoThat's one of the things I was handwaving over when I said "in the US it's more complicated". In the context of being an employee and hearing the information in your job it would pretty much always be illegal.