Sam figures it out
[!0.987]2013-10-21

It's a bank job?

More like insider trading on a massive scale.

Sam discovered it. I'm sending him over to talk to you. He's describing… things… Things I can't bear to think about.

If I listen to him much longer, I'm going to lose my grip on reality.

And if you're a government and you spend more than you take in, you can keep borrowing money forever with no repercussions!

Color by George Peterson

Mark Stanley is openly trolling U.S. economic policy through Sam's mouth, however.
I tried to explain the concept of “insider trading” within the comic book itself, so as not to resort to footnotes. But I'm not an economist, so I could be wrong. (KALDYH)
However, CoTAN does not allow so much leeway with the length of the translation, so an explanation in a footnote is still needed (Robot Spike)
Insider is a source of valuable commercial information within the firm, who uses or leaks it to the outside for the purpose of obtaining a profit