What Next - Where Insider Trading Becomes Treason
Slate News31 Mar

What Next - Where Insider Trading Becomes Treason

A flurry of activity in the oil-futures market, minutes before Donald Trump made a big announcement about not striking at Iranian infrastructure, has all the appearance of someone using classified national security information to turn a profit.


Guest: Paul Krugman, Nobel-Prize winning economist and author of paulkrugman.substack.com.


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