I have long been a skeptic about State action against insider trading, which is believed to be widely prevalent in India. Writing in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Donald J. Boudreaux has a nice scheme which can replace the existing policy framework.

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My first employer on Wall Street was the world’s largest pension fund; my second, the fastest growing hedge fund. When I was at the first and interviewing for the second, I had this idea that the best hedge fund were investing on some higher plane, with qualitatively different instruments and strategies put to [...]

An auction rate security generally refers to a debt instrument with a long-term nominal maturity for which the interest rate is regularly reset through periodic auctions. It allows issuers to borrow for the long-term but at lower, short-term interest rates.
The auction-rate securities market involved investors buying and selling instruments that resembled corporate debt whose interest rates were reset at regular [...]