While Congress is debating the “best” way to regulate spam the private market is developing its own means of doing so. See this CNN.com article on the current state of these private solutions.

Here is an article from the Financial Times website, reporting on a forthcoming article in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis . It finds that Senators’ portfolios outperformed the market over time, which suggests they trade on inside information–very timely, given the whole Martha fiasco.