The 'Facebook Generation' Has Totally Revolutionized Insider Trading en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:42:11 -0500 Erin Fuchs Cynic Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:29:40 -0500 "power and influence is distributed more 'democratically' across a complexly interconnected network" Yep, and what did Kurt Gödel show about closed set [humans] trying to describe [predict] itself? Wall Street made money when it was a subset of elites predicting the actions of the broader group; that's why everyone get's all nervous when the shoeshine boy turns stock picker. The market we have now isn't an elite playground anymore, it's a central bank trying desperately to ignore the information revolution and prop up old school models. Tom Rogers Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:00:02 -0500 qktip hasn't gotten the take up it needs yet. Old media is still the way the SEC thinks of disclosure. Jill Thompson Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:57:09 -0500 That's why services like, etc. exist- so that people can disclose nonpublic information in a way that resonates with the new media model. Insider trading now is either two forms: inadvertently naive or good old fashioned malicious. The law simply hasn't caught up. todd presed Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:46:13 -0500 todd prestt