The securities industry boasts a stressful working environment that puts an emphasis on profit alone sometimes causing it’s workers to resort to unethical methods of trade. The result is mistrust between the common investor and the brokerage houses they use to process their trades. This cheating in order to gain an advantage over the market is best focused on with the insider trading scandals of the past and their repercussions on how business ethics should be practiced in the workplace today. The 1980’s were a revolutionary per ....