Congress Stock Gains: Why Critics Say They’re ‘Eye-Popping’ and Unfair

Bessent Targets ‘Eye-Popping’ Stock Gains by Congress Members: ‘The American People Deserve Better’

Bessent Targets 'Eye-Popping' Stock Gains by Congress Members: 'The American People Deserve Better
Scott Bessent

Michael Austin – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent voiced concern over the “eye-popping” stock gains some members of Congress are making, expressing support for some form of ban on individual trades.

The senior Trump administration official told Bloomberg on Wednesday that the American people are right to be concerned.

“I am going to start pushing for a single stock trading ban, because it is the credibility of the House and the Senate that you look at some of these eye-popping returns,” Bessent said.

“Every hedge fund would be jealous of them,” he said of the returns earned by California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden. Continue reading

AOC Leads Charge for Stock Trade Disclosure Among Lawmakers

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes jaw-dropping move everyone agrees with

AOC Leads Charge for Stock Trade Disclosure Among LawmakersCory Templeman – Has hell frozen over?

Or are pigs officially flying?

Whatever the case, liberal congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pulled off a move so stunning, even her biggest critics are applauding her.

AOC took to X (formally Twitter) late last week to advocate that her fellow lawmakers should be disclosing their recent stock market purchases.

“Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now. I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter on the floor,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. Continue reading

Traders Likely Learned About Hamas Plans Ahead Of Time

Traders May Have Been Told About Hamas Plans To Attack Israel On Oct 7Niamh Harris – Unusual market activity showed that some traders knew in advance that the October 7th attack on Israel was coming.

A study by US researchers suggests that inside traders knew about the Hamas plan to attack Israel on October 7 and used that to make millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli securities trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges before October 7

Israeli authorities are now investigating claims that some investors may have known about the attack in advance and used the knowledge to make hundreds of millions of pounds. Continue reading

Massive Insider Trading Scandal Downplayed by Biden WH

Massive Insider Trading Scandal Downplayed by Biden WHPatriotic Viral News – The White House is once again gaslighting Americans over the latest scandal to come out of the Biden regime – claiming that a major instance of insider trading is nothing to worry about.

On more than one occasion the White House press team has worked to convince Americans that they’re crazy for believing Biden and his cronies have done something wrong, even if the evidence is irrefutable.

And that’s exactly what has happened here. Continue reading

Securities And Exchange Commission Hacked

insider tradingJoseph P Farrell – We’ve seen a spate of hacking lately that makes one wonder what is going on and who is behind it: indeed, are we dealing with just one “who”? or a multitude? And if a multitude, are their activities coordinated in any way? If one looks at all the stories in recent years, going all the way back to 9/11 (and indeed further), then the total picture looks grimly compelling.

There was the Sony hack, of course, but since then, we’ve heard stories and allegations of the hacking of major banks: JP Morgan Chase, even the Federal Reserve, and, just yesterday I blogged about the implications of recently fired Vatican bank auditor Libero Milone, who’s short statement implicates similar activity against (or by?) the Vatican bank.  Then the Social Security administration, credit reporting agencies like Equifax, and so on.

On 9/11, as I outlined in my book Hidden Finance, Rogue Networks, and Secret Sorcery, there were reports from workers at Deutsche Bank in New York that their system had been invaded and non-responsive for about seven seconds, apparently trades were executed, just before the planes struck. As is known, during the following week, normal securities clearing regulations were suspended, which allowed securities to be substituted for other securities that were scheduled to clear. We’ll get back to the SEC in a moment. Continue reading