> Therefore, why not assume every trade is insider dealing, unless proven otherwise?

This kills the crab.

(investors are driven out of markets when it is obvious that they are being cheated)

> The truth is that any empire needs to pick off rivals and rob them, in order to keep the empire going.

This also kills the crab. (And most of us along the way: we're already in a limited kind of world war, the sort of thing that has a history of escalating)

Who else here is old enough to remember when Martha Stewart got jailed for insider trading?