Re:This is your brain on a crashing stock market
by throwaway_Bees on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:39AM
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>A reasonable person absolutely would have made that decision based on information that was already public.
The stock was sold immediately after a coronavirus briefing, not just some stock, his entire net worth.
Maybe it is reasonable to have sold your entire net worth based solely on the available public news, but then why not well before or well after the briefing and instead right after the briefing? Why tip of your wealth constituents at a $10,000/plate fundraiser while simultaneously maintaining a different political position publicly?
The stock was sold immediately after a coronavirus briefing, not just some stock, his entire net worth.
Maybe it is reasonable to have sold your entire net worth based solely on the available public news, but then why not well before or well after the briefing and instead right after the briefing? Why tip of your wealth constituents at a $10,000/plate fundraiser while simultaneously maintaining a different political position publicly?