But it is difficult to challenge this congressional privilege in the US, in part because insider trading is an ambiguous concept under US law, with no statutory definitions of the terms insider, inside information, or insider trading.

3 Trade securities or maneuver securities market with insider information

Marco himself was elected deputy on the Socialist ticket, but he defected when the party denied him the chance to contest Frei s nomination in a primary. With this unique mix of insider knowledge and outsider status, and a freshness that both main candidates lack, Enríquez Ominami has gone farther than most observers predicted.

I think I hope! that Bezos will make the proper distinctions. He understands the difference between media (yet another of his personal investments is the Web site Business Insider) and journalism.

As noted in the OECD Principles, information about record ownership may need to be complemented with information about beneficial ownership in order to identify potential conflicts of interest, related party transactions and insider trading.

My office has had significant assistance from certain Member States in the past six months in the matter of relocation and protection of witnesses as well as of family members of high level insider witnesses.

Mozilo did settle with the SEC, but on different charges (insider trading). And he paid only 47.5 million of the 67.5 million settlement, owing to a 20 million indemnification agreement that was part of his employment contract.

A few prominent criminal convictions have sent a powerful signal in the fight against insider trading. If the target is an industry wide culture of deception, shouldn t the criminal justice system be mobilized against banks mortgage fraud as well?

But sometimes this can be an advantage. An insider knows best how to reconcile contrasting interests and how to get the institutional machinery moving again, as Juncker showed with his deft handling of the distribution of tasks among the individual Commissioners.

These are disturbing facts. Talent and effort should be rewarded, but two people of equal capabilities and dedication should not be treated differently just because one happens to be an insider, with a secure job in a big, successful company.

What does it take for organizations like these to become and remain successful? My own experience, as both a government insider and INGO outsider, has been mostly in the area of peace and security, but I think the lessons are generalizable.

For Pascal, scientific knowledge paled beside the knowledge of God.

The US Congress the legislative branch of the country s government effectively exempts itself from the normal rules of insider trading. Congress and the US Supreme Court are the only federal agencies whose employees may, without restrictions, trade stocks based on non public information.

Belief in a government answerable to the people and in a transparent market purged of insider dealing no longer guides government policy. Instead, the ideals for which we struggled appear as slogans invoked by those who want to protect their vested interests.

And behind this powerful disagreement between how to close that gap, there's the worst kind of cynical party politics, the worst kind of insider baseball, lobbying, all of that stuff, but there's also this powerfully interesting, respectful disagreement between two fundamentally different economic philosophies.

I felt there's a scene in the Al Pacino movie The Insider, which you may know, where he goes back to CBS after they've let him down over the tobacco guy, and he goes, You know, I just can't do this anymore. Something's broken.

Once a world leader in the fight against environmental degradation, America was the last major economy to acknowledge the reality of climate change. Financial deregulation enriched Wall Street, but ended up creating a global economic crisis through fraud, excessive risk taking, incompetence, and insider dealing.

Traditional knowledge

Traditional knowledge

Traditional knowledge

Knowledge of languages Finnish (mother tongue), Swedish, English and German French (basic knowledge)

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

The Alaska Native Knowledge Network is developing a school curriculum based on aboriginal knowledge.

Knowledge is there.

Knowledge is power.

What is knowledge?

Knowledge and Technology

Knowledge of languages

Knowledge and information

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

They should also produce traditional knowledge centred curricula for integrating traditional knowledge in mainstream education.

Even more worrying than insider trading by elected representatives is the political intelligence industry that now flourishes in Washington, Brussels, and other major global capitals. In the US, former US congressmen and their staffers collect privileged information and sell it to hedge fund managers, raking in 100 million annually.

Rather than just extending insider trading law to the US Congress (or to other legislatures), citizens should demand that all restrictions and reporting requirements imposed on the private sector apply automatically to elected representatives as well. This would make these legislatures more credible, and their laws more just.

Next up is knowledge.

Prerequisite knowledge and software

What gem of knowledge?

The Tacit Knowledge Economy

Traditional forest related knowledge

Forest related scientific knowledge

Strengthening knowledge and information

Knowledge in computer science

(b) Knowledge and information

However, these high levels of knowledge of the existence of AIDS do not correspond to a knowledge adjusted to the knowledge of the means of transmission and prevention of this illness.