{"id":1496,"date":"2021-12-22T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2021-12-22T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T15:30:03","slug":"should-lawmakers-be-allowed-to-trade-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/2021\/12\/22\/should-lawmakers-be-allowed-to-trade-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Should lawmakers be allowed to trade stocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congresswoman Nanci Pelosi, longtime Speaker of the House, said that lawmakers should be allowed to trade stocks while they\u2019re on Capitol Hill\u2019s dime. But doesn\u2019t she make an awful lot of money from her investments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Nancy\u2019s husband has been noted making 5.3 million dollar timely bets by buying stock in companies like Facebook.\u201d<br>So if government employees are investing in companies and buying their stocks, why shouldn\u2019t they be able to sell these investments? There\u2019s no unfairness here, right? We should just consider this a right of passage!<br>With recent news stories about insider trading, some people are wondering if lawmakers could be doing it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s becoming more and more common for lawmakers to engage in insider trading as well. It is speculated that there are many other examples where government insiders were able to make big gains. However, it&#8217;s not always easy to identify due to brokerage firms\u2019 policies against sharing client trades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This topic is a completely gray area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-reddit wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/politics\/comments\/rm3opa\/opinion_pelosi_said_its_fine_for_lawmakers_to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opinion: Pelosi said it\u2019s fine for lawmakers to trade stocks. She\u2019s wrong.<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Maxcactus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">u\/Maxcactus<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">politics<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Nanci Pelosi, longtime Speaker of the House, said that lawmakers should be allowed to trade stocks while they\u2019re on Capitol Hill\u2019s dime. But doesn\u2019t she make an awful lot of money from her investments? Also, Nancy\u2019s husband has been noted making 5.3 million dollar timely bets by buying stock in companies like Facebook.\u201dSo if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[10,9,21,425],"tags":[694,383,695,403],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","category-review","category-stocks","tag-congresswoman","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-speaker","tag-stocks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pelosi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}