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by beager 2229 days ago
It would be fun to compare the timeline of stock transactions by legislators with the timeline of public statements by those legislators and their colleagues pertaining to the companies’ stocks they’re selling, or those companies’ industries in general. Not that I expect such nakedly corrupt pumping and dumping or hyping... but I’ve been more surprised in the past.
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wdn 2229 days ago
"Throw Them All Out" by Peter Schweizer documented a lot of this.

https://www.amazon.com/Throw-Them-All-Out-Politicians-ebook/...

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olah_1 2229 days ago
You'd get more meaningful results if you checked _their_ statements with the transactions of their _family members_.

But that's too creepy for me (which is probably what is being counted on).

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