Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

by Thomas Levenson

Of course, such a paper couldn’t solve every problem for a nascent financial market. Insider trading—especially in the smaller joint-stock companies that never made it onto Castaing’s list—remained a constant danger. Rumors could swamp the kind of hard data Castaing tried to gather. Outright frauds certainly occurred.