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Re:Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks by sagarm on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:28AM (#46136426)
Do our current elected leaders understand discounted cash flows or opportunity cost? I'm not seeing evidence our current process results in people skill, knowledge, and expertise, especially given the over representation of people from entertainment.
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Re:Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks by groundzeros2015 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:35AM (#46136547)
Yes. across parties senators typically have prestigious law degrees and piles of accomplishments.

I’m not saying that makes them great. But if you want to see the pool of average citizens walk into a Walmart or DMV outside the Bay Area.

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Re:Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks by HDThoreaun on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:49AM (#46136731)
Yes. They just don’t talk about it because the voters don’t understand and feel insulted when they hear politicians talk about stuff they don’t understand.
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