The perception that Wall Street has an inside advantage has always been there, but it seems new to me that Washington is now getting in on the stock game.

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But exactly that prospect has generated excitement from one Wall Street analyst and deep inside Internet message boards.

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It would be a shame if House Republicans, led by the Majority Leader, at the urging of Wall Street interests and other inside-the-Beltway forces, watered down the tough but common-sense measures supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.

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But many on Wall Street have been giving the inside track to a rival drug, Incivek from Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

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Last year, CNBC poached Robert Frank, the author of Richistan and The High-Beta Rich and pioneer of the wealth beat at The Wall Street Journal, to set up the Inside Wealth blog at the cable channel.

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From " Bailout: An Inside Account of how Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, " by Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke "confided that he believed that Goldman Sachs would have been the next to go" after Morgan Stanley.

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On July 21st the Wall Street Journal ran a short story on its inside pages suggesting that Wayne Huizenga's AutoNation, the country's biggest car retailer, was considering offering an own-label car.

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Bharara referred me to a 2007 poll in which twenty-five hundred Wall Street professionals were asked if they would use inside information to make ten million dollars if the chances of getting caught were fifty per cent.

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Or that Wall Street and banking and money management would be turned inside out, uncorking money buried inside the musty trust departments of sclerotic banks.

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Incidentally, they named Blue Star after the 1987 movie Wall Street, in which Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko buys Bluestar Airlines using inside information--and his informant is sent to jail.

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In the film aptly named Wall Street, Michael Douglas played a ruthless buyout kingpoin who traded his way to obscene wealth using inside information.

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