Yes, public officials insider stock trading should be illegal. the politicans that are supposed to helping us with the economy and the price gas etc,. while they get richer we get screwed off by more for gas more for rent more for food water and other nessecites to sustain human life they should not be getting richer and we getting poorer do to there poor economic bills

because they are corrupt they are getting richer we us the American people and f*cked out of because some politcan wants to get richer so they buy more stocks so they can put more money into superPACs to make the American people suffer with the prices

Insider trading undermines the fairness and integrity of financial markets because people with confidential, material information can profit—or avoid losses—before ordinary investors have access to the same information. Your best arguments 1. It creates an unfair information advantage. Markets are supposed to allow investors to make decisions based on information available to them. An executive who knows their company is about to collapse, or that a major deal is about to be announced, has an advantage ordinary investors simply cannot obtain legitimately. 2. It damages public trust. If people believe the stock market is rigged for insiders, fewer people will want to invest. A market can be technically functional while still losing public legitimacy. 3. It can harm ordinary investors. An insider's profit often comes because someone else is buying or selling without knowing the information the insider possesses. The ordinary investor may be left holding the losses after the information becomes public. 4. The argument that “everyone should just find information faster” is weak. There is a difference between analyzing public information more effectively and secretly using confidential information obtained through a position of trust.