The illegal activity at SAC has been pervasive: at least nine current or former SAC traders and analysts are linked to illegal trades, according to Bloomberg.
In general, economic boom-and-bust cycles have become increasingly shorter over the last 30 years, and with the prevalence today of real-time information, instant trades, and inextricably-linked international markets, this bubble will rise and fall more quickly and under greater scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers.