Why is insider trading a crime?

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It seems perfectly natural and innocuous that those with the most information would want to profit from it, and doing so isn’t illegal anywhere else. So why is it prohibited to make trades based on information not everyone has? What undesirable thing does this prevent?

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The undesirable outcome is that people with inside information would be the only ones who could ever profit. It’s called public trading because it is meant to be public.

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