Blue Sky Laws

  

There are thousands of rules about selling and marketing securities. These laws are there to protect you, but...they're confusing.

For one thing, each state has its own separate laws, and there are federal rules to follow, too. Blue-Sky laws are the collective state regulations involving the marketing and sale of securities in a specific state. If you want to make new issues and secondary offerings available in, say, Idaho, you have to register according to the relevant Idaho laws. Some states' regulations are stricter than others.

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reg FD ?all those whispery hallways of the 1970s and 80s

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insiders muckety-mucks cheaters Liars deceivers key employees on the take [men in suits discuss stocks]

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sound like the dramatic cover for a Hollywood movie and while it was and it

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practice of quote doing research unquote for all too many of the professional by

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crack down with only modest success for a while when finally reg FD was enacted

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discussions that could legally happen among analysts and company insiders. in

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fact disclosure of much more than much more than the company name mailing

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address and the product they sold was prohibited unless it was done in a

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broadly available and well-publicized public forum that John Q public could [woman gives presentation]

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participate in. the goal here was to take away free money or profits or gains from

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insiders leaking information you know so that investors could make bets with way

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