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I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market. This involves a great deal of under

I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market. This involves a great deal of understanding on mathematics topics involving everything from stats, probability and economics. They manage to do this part time while governing, so I'd have to say they are pretty adept. I could be missing something though.

flatline-84 5y ago
Insider trading is what you're missing. As evidenced by the March 2020 dump
- quickthrowman 5y ago
  Uh, what? The sharp drop in equities in February and March 2020 was a massive deleveraging caused by panic selling and leveraged traders being margin called.
friedman23 5y ago
> I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market Politicians are not using math to decide which stocks to pick, they are using insider information. edit: ok, it's clear that the parent comment was sarcasm now but you never know
- dilyevsky 5y ago
  No they dont - they already thoroughly investigated themselves
- lordnacho 5y ago
  Are you not able to see the special font that sarcastic comments are rendered in?
  - giantg2 5y ago
    I suppose it's a disability of mine.
carom 5y ago
I really hate sarcasm tags and I really appreciate this comment.
alephr 5y ago
Is there any evidence for this or is this just trendy and shallow politician hate?