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Re:Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Bran... by jakearmitage on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:19AM (#36786798)
I wish there was a tool that allowed me to follow Congress as if it was an index. Automatically buying and selling what they buy and sell. Right from my Fidelity or something.
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Re:Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Bran... by nickpeterson on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:29AM (#36786974)
If it got popular enough, congressmen would heavily buy a stock their spouse has short term options on, why not?
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Re:Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Bran... by minkzilla on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:03AM (#36787625)
NANC and KRUZ ETFs track democrats and republican holdings respectively. A word of caution: there are articles online that have looked at individual senators and most of them unperformed compared to the SP500
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Re:Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Bran... by shagmin on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:56AM (#36788479)
Someone with some spare cash for seed funding could file with the SEC to create an ETF that does exactly this.
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