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That doesn’t mean they won’t carve out exceptions for themselves though. Congress passed laws to allow them to trade on inside information, for example.

• mehrdadn 8y ago
  Those were repealed, right? https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...
  • rgbrenner 8y ago
    here are a few updates after that (in order by date): https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-investigated-insider-trading/ https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-inv... https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/congress-stock-trading-conflict-of-interest-rules-238033 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/congress-stock-tra... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-truth-about-congress-and-financial-conflicts/2017/10/19/8ea8afd6-b382-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.ce8b2ce870cd https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-truth-about-cong...
    • mehrdadn 8y ago
      Wow thank you! :)