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February 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Congress Has Finally Concluded That Insider Trading Is Bad
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are teeming with ideas to halt the practice of self-enrichment. Which one will they choose?
January 22, 2022
Jason Linkins
Let’s Oust Congress’s Stock Market Miscreants!
Senator Jon Ossoff is leading a push to ban lawmakers from playing the stock market.
December 17, 2021
Matt Ford
No, Members of Congress Should Not Own Individual Stocks
Nancy Pelosi believes that lawmakers should be allowed to participate in the “free market economy.” Well, they are “free” to leave office then!
June 4, 2020
Libby Watson
The Stock Market Is an Engine of Civic Destruction
The chief mechanism of wealth accumulation relentlessly and unfailingly pits the American people against their elected representatives.
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