Congressional (or executive branch.....) stock trading is completely unacceptable and should be totally banned. Full stop. With that being said- the idea that

Congressional (or executive branch.....) stock trading is completely unacceptable and should be totally banned. Full stop. With that being said- the idea that they're outperforming the market I think has been debunked several times. I'm sure that they're acting in bad faith and believe that they have some kind of precious inside information. But a few different studies have shown that they basically do the same as any group of a few hundred people that pick individual stocks- some outperform, some underperform, and in general their returns are a random walk. See https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/47365/Lis_7882866.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/47... "no significant abnormal returns" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4954641 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4954641 "significantly underperform" https://andy.egge.rs/papers/EggMueller_capitol_losses_jop_2013.pdf https://andy.egge.rs/papers/EggMueller_capitol_losses_jop_20... "between 2004 and 2008 the average member of Congress would have earned higher returns in a passive index fund" Stick to index funds folks