Are you looking to find out where the best traders in America are located? Well, it’s simple, they are in the American Congress! Most of your elected officials in Congress are capable of outperforming the S&P 500. I see you coming up with your accusations of insider trading …

by sylsau

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  2. I wonder if public servants should be limited in that regard. Many other western democratic countries have more regulations in place than USA in order to limit conflict of interest.

  4. If a referee cant be on their sports game, or a coach cant bet on their sports game, or players cant bet on their sports game, because they each influence the game, why do we allow those in power who can make laws in favor or against a companies favor, to do such things like buying stock? Didnt we get enough evidence from the covid congress stock fiasco

  7. Huh. Less than 10% were able to do so. With significant information advantage. Maybe this John Bogle fellow was onto something…

  8. I feel like this is a poor metric for evidence. I’m all for banning insider trading but you need to tie investments with information and timing. Just showing returns is silly. The S&P 500 are some of the safest investments you can make but not that hard to put perform. I would be in the middle of this chart for the last year and I use mostly ETFs. I think my only single stock anymore is Berkshire.

  10. It looks like your saying only 4 people outperformed the S&P 500 and only Higgens outperformed it in a meaningful way?

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