Rigged by Design: How Insider Traders Profit From Trump's Iran Announcements

The article reveals a systematic pattern of insider trading in oil futures, where massive short positions are established minutes before Trump announcements about the Iran War, suggesting access to advance information. This pattern has repeated multiple times with significant profits ($125 million in the latest case), yet the Trump administration appears to take no enforcement action. Beyond the immediate losses for other market participants, this raises critical questions about regulatory capture and whether financial markets can function efficiently when insiders trade on non-public information with apparent impunity.