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Film, Video When Insider Trading Was Legal

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Title

  • When Insider Trading Was Legal

Summary

  • The United States has stricter laws than any nation against insider trading in financial markets, but the earliest of these laws date only from 1909. Prior, stock and commodities exchanges governed themselves with minimal external oversight. Mark Geiger presents a close-up view of member relationships and business practices within the Chicago Board of Trade during the later 19th century when rival groups of exchange members, often family-centered, competed for money and power on the trading floor.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-04-19.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Government, Law
  • -  stocks, trading, Chicago

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Mark Geiger.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-04-19.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688861

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. When Insider Trading Was Legal. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-19, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688861/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2012) When Insider Trading Was Legal. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-19. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688861/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. When Insider Trading Was Legal. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-19, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688861/>.