Congress Has No Good Excuse to Keep Trading Stocks

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Americans are fed up with watching legislators make suspiciously well-timed trades. Pass a law now, or the problem is only going to get worse.

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GOPers in congress: A bunch of phony, hypocritical 'Christians' who say they are leading clean lives yet violate God and Man's laws, and thumb their noses at the concept of ethical behavior. And the Dems are not far behind regarding stock trading...

#1 | Posted by catdog at 2025-09-18 12:23 PM | Reply

Good luck stopping it now.

There is already too much money at stake.

And Trumpy is all for corruption in his own government. As long as they are being corrupt for him.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-18 12:29 PM | Reply

Congress Has No Good Excuse to Keep Trading Stocks

Stop it! Or you'll make them cry!

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-09-18 01:07 PM | Reply

Oh they have "good excuses".
Millions of them actually.

#4 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2025-09-18 01:34 PM | Reply

Eliminating their ability to trade stocks might be as effective as term limits!

#5 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-09-19 05:33 AM | Reply

Years ago, congressmen and their staff would receive USIC country briefings at the appropriate level. We found out later these congressmen used that info to help make personal financial decisions in overseas investments or enterprises. This was bipartisan abuse and it looks like nothing has changed: www.reddit.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-19 05:57 AM | Reply

There was a kerfuffle over this decades ago: whistleblower.org

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-19 06:09 AM | Reply

CORIOLANUS
Like a meeting of a shifty-eyed Rotary Club.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 06:12 AM | Reply

#8: Morning Doc Sarvis: Apt description. Decades ago I briefed some of these CODELs and for them to learn if a regime is stable is priceless. The Aliev family still has a stranglehold on their oil-rich domain: pennbookcenter.com

BTW: Posting the Umberto Eco essay is great idea, but for MAGAts the erudition will fall on tin ears. I still have the daunting Foucault's Pendulum on my bookshelf gathering dust. Dr. Eco wrote way above my pay grade as a humble Shakespearean, although I was able to complete The Name of the Rose within a reasonable time.

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-19 06:34 AM | Reply

Well, Coriolanus,we be in the same boat when it comes to Umberto Eco. I got through Rose but Pendulum left me eating dust. I do love the way the man could write. I'll bet he was a hard-hearted self-editor of a writer.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 08:13 AM | Reply

Probably even able to insert the correct quit sign after "Pendulum"!

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 08:32 AM | Reply

#10: Glad I'm not alone. I'll get to it one day, I keep saying to myself. And who could possibly have edited Umberto Eco's work, Elaine Benes? ;-)

There was an Australian novelist who required little to no editing or proof-reading: m.media-amazon.com

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-19 08:41 AM | Reply

When nobody is legislating the legislators, this is what happens. Who is going to make the laws to stop them? It won't be them, that's for sure.

#13 | Posted by humtake at 2025-09-19 11:48 AM | Reply

Criminals gonna crime.

#14 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-09-19 02:43 PM | Reply