Imagine the temptation: You are present at a highly confidential briefing where you learn that a developing pandemic is likely to wreak havoc on the American economy. What do you do? What can you do?

As we have seen from recent press reports, this is not just a theoretical question, as it appears that certain members of Congress sold stock after attending a series of confidential congressional briefings around the threat of the novel coronavirus beginning in late January, before the stock market plummeted. But in these times of market volatility, a similar situation could take place in different ways at many different companies.