Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.
I’m in favour of banning government members from trading stocks, but it didn’t exactly take an insider to predict that the tariffs would bring the market down.
it didn’t exactly take an insider to predict that the tariffs would bring the market down.
Nope, but it took an insider to know the timing before everyone else and thus get a head start before things start plummeting. There’s a shitload of money to be pilfered that way.
He was publicly raving about enacting tariffs before the tariffs were officially announced and in place. The only people that didn’t know they were coming were those not paying attention and the willfully ignorant.
I’m in favour of banning government members from trading stocks, but it didn’t exactly take an insider to predict that the tariffs would bring the market down.
Nope, but it took an insider to know the timing before everyone else and thus get a head start before things start plummeting. There’s a shitload of money to be pilfered that way.
He was publicly raving about enacting tariffs before the tariffs were officially announced and in place. The only people that didn’t know they were coming were those not paying attention and the willfully ignorant.