
If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Stock Trading in Congress | Rick Glassman
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
House Speaker Nancy Polose's Adamant That Congress Isn't Allowed to Trade Stocks
This comes only a few weeks after house speaker nancy polose doubled down on memers right to invest in the stock market. For most of american history, inside of trading, laws that affected cos didn't apply to members of congress. So if thomas edison testified behind closed doors, senators could just call up their broker going, jump all my shares and candles lets its over. O you see, they could use all this advanced, secret knowledge to make money for themselves. And it was illegal for everyone else to do it. But for some reason, congress could. I mean, it may have something to do with the fact that they were making the laws. Who knows.
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