Money Matters - Lesson 1

Hot Tips: The Ethics of Insider Trading

With Rabbi Ari Sollish

Recorded Live at The Torah Center ATL on Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Information is a valuable commodity -- this fact has been made clear by recent stories of high-profile prosecutions on insider trading charges. But is it fair to require companies to make information readily available to people who did not expend the time, effort, and money to attain it? Can stealing or misusing information be likened to property theft? How do we set up markets which ensure that risk is apportioned fairly?

In this lesson, we will compare and contrast what American law and Jewish law have to say on the subject.