The bad thing: heavy-duty mathematicians and computer scientists coming into financing. This will definitely widen the gap between those who can afford to buy better information and better tools, and those who don't.
As Karl Marx said "Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."
THE FALL OF THE ATHENIAN REPUBLIC... "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
Bob_B
Dec 21, 2009This is called Insider Trading. This can be very hard to detect, so the Feds throw a very large net to entrap anyone "near."