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Where Insider Trading Becomes Treason
A flurry of activity in the oil-futures market, minutes before Donald Trump made a big announcement about not striking at Iranian infrastructure, has all the appearance of someone using classified national security information to turn a profit.
Guest: Paul Krugman, Nobel-Prize winning economist and author of paulkrugman.substack.com.
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