Both Uses of
inside information
in
Freakonomics
- Instead of futilely attacking the Klan from the outside, what if he could somehow unleash all the secret inside information that John Brown was gathering from the Klan's weekly meetings?†
p. 59.8 *
- Although the Klan would never quite die, especially down south—David Duke, a smooth-talking Klan leader from Louisiana, mounted substantive bids for the U.S. Senate and other offices—it was certainly handicapped, at least in the short term, by Kennedy's brazen dissemination of inside information.†
p. 62.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(inside information as in: bought with inside information) material information pertaining to a corporation's affairs that have not yet been made public
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, inside information can refer to any information that is not known to most people.