Greed may be good, but it's also a powerful motivator. Those who can enrich themselves jump on any opportunity despite legal and ethical questionability. Insider trading, which entails exploiting privately held information for monetary gain through transactions on securities markets, has been an issue since their establishment. In North America, the phenomenon is highly unethical being punishable with imprisonment. I'll be examining the ethical perspectives of insider trading from a North American standpoint using virtue ethics and utilitarianism to establish that insider trading is an…