On: Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

[BurningFrog]

Honest question: If I work at Microsoft and I know we'll launch a product that will kill competitor X, am I allowed to short the X stock?

That more analogous to the politician trading. They do have inside information, but it's not from inside the company they're trading.

[iudqnolq → BurningFrog]

No, because that would be considered "stealing" from Microsoft. (I think it's a stupid way to define it.)