Congress Trading Stocks While You Lose Money

Members of Congress have access to information the public does not. They hear about legislation, regulatory changes, defense spending, and government contracts before normal people ever see the headline.

Then somehow their portfolios keep making suspiciously well-timed moves.

While you are trying to pick an index fund, your representative may be trading around industries they regulate. Your senator may be buying before a policy shift. The pattern is not subtle.

The STOCK Act was supposed to fix this. Enforcement is weak, penalties are laughable, and the people writing the rules are the same people benefiting from the loopholes.

They are not working for you. They are working for their portfolios.