• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Info he’s referring to: Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC): 149.0% Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): 142.3% Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): 123.8% Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX): 111.2% Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY): 105.8% Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN): 98.6% Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX): 95.2% Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME): 77.5% Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN): 71.5% Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): 70.9%

        149% in a year, that’s wild. Must have owned mostly NVidia

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          8 days ago

          Yeah, you only get those kinds of numbers (usually) from something like crypto - of course, it could easily swing the other way, since it tends to be extremely volatile.

          The article says this:

          Rep. David Rouzer’s impressive returns in 2024 were a result of shares of Nvidia, Mastercard (NYSE:MA), and Visa (NYSE:V) and other funds he’s held for years, according to Unusual Whales.

          By the way, my comment that she’s #10 is not meant to make an excuse for her. Just because she was beat by 9 others doesn’t make it right…in fact, it’s still quite infuriating and most Americans support putting an end to this insider trading.

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            8 days ago

            You can get those numbers reading options. If you know a company is about to get a $100 million government contract, which might bump up the stock like 10-20%, you can buy options that multiply those returns because you know how quickly it will jump

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            8 days ago

            Well the truth is likely different than people want to hear. Every trade over $1000 dollars has been reviewed by an ethics committee since the stock act was passed back in 2012. It made sure Congress members trading with insider information was a crime. Aka, everyone who’s bitched about insider trading since 2012 has been going off their feelings of how it’s unfair rich people can make money off the insane amounts of money they have.

            https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/2038

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              8 days ago

              They’ve clearly not been enforcing that very well. Sure, they now submit their trades a month afterwards. Nothing happens unless they’re very obviously telling other people to also trade on that info

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                8 days ago

                They might not be enforcing it strongly enough, but it’s already illegal. Meaning the punishments and review process should just be reviewed/changed. That said if you look at where everyone made giant amounts of money last year it was Nvidia. It wasnt about insider information. The company just took off, and the legislative branch has actually put restrictions on the company, not voted to allow them to operate freely. Had Nvidia been able to sell in China and build more factories there the company would have been able to increase more rapidly. So the insider information would have been to sell Nvidia stock, not buy it.

                If we want to fix the issues at its core we need to find ways to ban everyone from investing in the stock market, not just government members.