Shameless stock-trade titans like Tom Suozzi make a mockery of Congress |
Inflation, health-care costs, war, disease — no problem should be too tough for our genius-level Congress to solve.
After all, dozens of these lawmakers ended 2025 with stock-market returns far exceeding the gains of the S&P, the Dow, the Nasdaq, or legendary stock pickers like Warren Buffet.
Rep. Tim Moore (R-NC) earned 52% on his stock portfolio, Tom Suozzi (D-NY) of Long Island’s “gold coast” scored a 35% gain, and former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene closed out her House career with a staggering 33% stock profit for 2025.
But it’s not genius on display. It’s sleaze.
These lawmakers have information and influence other stock traders don’t — and they’re parlaying it into riches.
Lawmakers know when a bill will be voted on or a regulation adopted, and they have the clout to influence the timing.
It’s common sense, now backed up by a study examining 20 years’ worth of congressional stock-trading data from the........