In what world is the modern US Congress a good regulator of these kinds of things? Half the people in the Capitol have a literal vested interest in the very companies they claim to be trying to keep on a leash (and I recognize that some of these are inverse instruments, my point still stands).

what's the alternative?

no regulation?

regulation without representation?

Public service, especially at the highest levels, is both a realization of civic responsibility, as well as an immense material privilege.

If you've had a career in congress, parliament, whatever, you can live comfortably off of the various media appearances you're likely to have for much of the rest of your life.

Representatives in government should be able to keep it in their pants when it comes to investments at least while they're in government, and have a thick, thick wall between their jobs running a country (or state, or whatever) and the management of their investments. Blind trusts should be the bare minimum.

What I'd prefer to see is that while actively sitting in government, representatives must keep their savings invested in funds so diversified into low-risk instruments that almost no regulation can benefit them significantly more than it would an average passive investor.

My money is on the congress members - including the greatest stock trader of all times, Nancy Pelosi - having just sold their NVIDIA shares right before the spying was uncovered.

Let's see if this is true... Nope. [0]

However it is looking like his fellow adulterer donald knew and kept it under wraps for personal gain.

0 – https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy...

This link you posted, doesn’t work like you think it does - well, except on the part where she is shown to be beating the market by double digits every single year for the past decades.

Congress members only have to submit their trades every 3 months.

You will only know that Nancy Pelosi was up to since the beginning of October next January.