Congressional Stock Trading - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know | The Daily Show 

if i was ever going to play the stock market, i would just tell my broker "i'll have what congress is having".

I'm impressed at Ossoff for already putting this out as a freshman senator. Trading stocks as a member of congress isn't "participating in the free market" when you have all the insider information. It's legalized corruption. Pelosi joins people like Dan Crenshaw on being really bad with this issue.

This show makes me laugh but also depressed the more I learn. There is no end to the corruption. Get me off this planet.

Congress should be paid the average salary in the state they are living in.. that way they can feel what we feel..

So pleased with Ossoff. Congress should totally be banned from the markets.

I do think insider trading should be legalized, the only consequence would be that Company Reports would have little impact on the market because speculators would have to wait/hold since they are almost certain that someone has access to the company report ,the market would therefore achieve uncertainty, creating a fair ground.

Incredible skit at the end

The *ONLY* way these laws are going to change, is IF *WE THE PEOPLE* demand it. The reason these politicians get away with it, is because voters are quiet on the matter. EACH voter needs to make a call to their representatives; and also let Pelosi have it.

All stocks owned by members of congress should be liquidated and the funds used for stimulus. Reprehensible behavior by our ‘leaders’. I still say that members of the federal government should be required to subsist on minimum wage (only payable for days actually worked).

The sketch at the end was so energetic! I feel it was one of the only truly funny skits after an informative section I have seen in any news-satire shows in a while!

No real need for “term limits”. Remove the life-time pension, life-time government healthcare, the ability to trade stocks while in office. They won’t stay long.

Measley 200k a year? That's over twice what my parents combined income was when I was growing up ... And my mom was a special Ed teacher... Tells you what our politicians find important as far as where our tax payer dollars go.

"Put their stocks into a blind trust or pay a fine of their entire salaries." Let's see here. Blind trust, or pay a measely $200,000 and make MILLIONS off of insider trading that they will NEVER be prosecuted for? Such a tough choice...

Serving in Congress is supposed to be somewhat of a sacrifice one does for one's country, but since too many politicians see nothing wrong with insider trading, Congress needs barred from playing the market while they're in office. We don't send them to D.C. in order for them to get rich, and it's time we make them realize that.

Absolute best case scenario: literally every current politician is squeaky-clean with zero insider trading (wow), BUT should STILL have their stock-holding privileges REVOKED due to conflict of interest (and therefore the potential of corruption). The role of our representatives is too important to risk. Cut the umbilical.

I imagine most will give up their salary rather than stop their insider trading

the saddest thing is... ALL of their stock buying is common knowledge, and NO ONE does anything to punish them... if you or I did this, we'd be fined and locked up.

You are amazing, Trevor. Love your " "If you don't know, now you know" program.

Nancy changed her mind on stock trades VERY recently, it conveniently coincided with her decision to run for another term!😅

The closing sketch is brutally hilarious!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Crystal clear. No wonder Nancy Pelosi won't retire

How about just reducing their pay to what's considered livable.

Hahaha, I love his opening lines 🤣

"Or pay a $200,000 fine"... they'll just do that if they are caught. They make millions of trading with non-public information. Feels like it's more of a symbolic gesture then.

How about we decrease their ridiculous salaries in the first place?

I have been trading for about 6 months now and just about every trade backfires and slaps me in my face. Nearly impossible for me to catch more than a few points . I try to do top down analysis but it doesn't work for me . I say to myself, clearly I'm in the 90% that lose money, so I open a demo account, do my analysis, then take the opposite of what I would normally take and get the same result. I'm starting to feel hopeless, any advice for a struggling trader

reminds me of the Jon Stewart segment: "How the F*ck did Martha Stewart go to Prison". Worth a watch if you can find it. Also, it explains a lot that most citizens don't realize how many laws Congress has passed to allow themselves to break laws the rest of us have to follow.

The best show in late night now is definitely the dailyshow ..so hilarious and yet so informative 🤣👍😄😆

Congressional stock trading and congressional donations: two things that, if banned, would make the world a much better place.

This Show is fun and educative, it's absolutely the Best ever. I am always on RU-vid to check on the notification about this show

I'm very happy to see attention is finally being brought to this matter. It's nice to be able to laugh about it because otherwise it is extremely depressing. Let's do something about it... I understand there is legislation currently that involves this subject. I'm sure it will be decided by corrupt seniors like Pelosi but let's at least bring the truth to the surface as much as possible. It's criminal what they are doing, at OUR expense.

We need an independent ethics committee to ENFORCE ethics laws. #OneLaw4All

I’m so glad I voted for Ossoff!

So this has been going on the entire time. Yet another example of "rules for thee, not for me". If we are not equal in the eyes of the law then we are not equal.

Congress shouldn't be allowed to trade in the stock market. In fact you should not be allowed to make anything of value beyond their salary. It would help with corruption.

Why are people so greedy? Like, how much do you need?

"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that crime only exists for the lower class" - FFT Wiegraf

Makes the constant GRIFT that much more reprehensible 😑

I'm from GA and I couldn't be happier of our junior senator!

Never fall in love with a stock,Never fall in love with a CEO because they neither know you or care about your portfolio investing should be unemotional

Love that Trevor also included in there the fact that a lot of developing countries are the way they are by implementing the worst of what they learned from western countries with none of the checks and balances.

This is a topic that needs to be in spotlight all the time. Insider trading amongst other things are what's really hurting our poltics

Generally I agree with Pelosi, but her not wanting to eliminate what is essentially congressional insider trading is deeply alarming.

“I will buy arm floaties!” “You have passed the test!”

It's funny that that McCarthy got a lot to say about stock trading but he can't keep Marjorie Greene in line , now that was 😆😂🤣

There are already laws against insider trading. Those laws only apply to the peasants though. Like all American laws, they do not apply to "important people". What is the point of making another law banning this when cops are afraid to enforce our current laws when the perpetrators are important people?

I don't live in the US but man this show is pure gold

Trevor, this is one of your best videos yet! Totally infuriating 😡🤬 and totally hilarious 🤣🤣. Great job.

Thanks for the update everyday 💥🙌🏽

Oh no, now I will not be able to follow Pelosi's Hedge Fund trades.

I'm happy I stayed around to the end 😂😂😂

Their salary pales in comparison to their bribes.

Why aren’t some of the videos from this episode on the main page?

Why are you allowed to when my company/SEC doesnt let me have a "free" rein because I work in finance? Equal rules or equal restrictions! You have a lot of controls in your hands, there is obviously conflict of interest here.

I didn't know pushing all the elevator buttons is illegal. 😆 lol

Don't let them bury this! Don't you dare let America forget this in a month, don;t you dare!

The last part

Finally David Kibuuka gets done screen time!!!

That last part 😂

This happened with a Minister (Govt Official) in my country, pulled out their insurance policy while their political party was in govt and was talks with the company to help them in their troubled financial crisis.

Hat off to AOC, and others. Clean up the swamp.

Hilarious and TRUE!!! Great job Trevor as usual.

"Fighting the urge to do The Dougie live on camera." Dead

Thanks trevor for this issue

They shouldn't be able to invest, nor their immediate family. It is not a free market when our taxes are used as bailouts. They should also have to live in government housing.

I will forever appreciate this channel with the help of your knowledge and lessons explanations idea I see forex/stock is the best investment anyone could get into. As it could make you rich in a blink of an eye

The ending joke is sooo sharp and hilarious

If Congress never agrees on anything, that's literally admitting that nothing gets accomplished

They are mostly in "the know" and this is how they come out of congress multi millionaires

copying their moves using tiktok is very clever

Please, Trevor, more of the funny sketches as the one in the end. Hilarious!

Glad to see David Kibuuka in a Sketch. He's been behind the scenes helping Trevor.

“It is like their witchcraft…”😂😂😂

My mom knows the answer Representatives want to ban stock trading because they know it is a dishonest conflict of interest when Congress people have inside knowledge. It is insider trading because they know things the rest of us do not. If Nancy Pelosi wants to trade stocks legally, she should get a stockbroker to do it for her who can do it without that inside knowledge. January 27, 2022, 1:50pm

That’s why politician is always the top 1 job. You have power, you have everything.

Trevor, thanks for bringing this to America's attention. The bit in the end with Roy was too funny, thanks.

We don't talk about Congressgressgressgress

The very moment Pelosi responded to that question was the moment I lost all respect for her and all faith. Like the saying goes listen long enough and people will reveal their true colors. This woman loves being able to use inside information to trade stocks profitably.

All these politicians need to be ran out of town.

This is a tough issue. Maybe letting people in Congress benefit from insider trading is the lesser evil. The alternative is to ban in, but it is so profitable that many will attempt to get around the ban by tipping off relatives/friends/partners-in-crime, and I think a LOT of Congressional time is going to involve each party trying to smear members of the other party with accusations of insider trading, DOJ investigations, subpoenas. We get so little actual work from Congress given that they take off time for campaigning and such, and this will just make it worse. The lesser evil may be to just let them profiteer on this. After all, why do you think these millionaires agree to run for a position that only pays a couple hundred thousand? The insider trading is like their stock options, or their golden parachute.

imagine a bill that makes it illegal for politicians to lie. how could they vote no?

Am I the only one that feels like 200k is a pretty reasonable salary. Doesn’t feel excessive given the position.

Well the idea behind it is that government is not suppose to make profit

Great show. Thank you. Love your cleverness.

I’m surprised that Trevor didn’t mention all of the congresspeople who conveniently invested in body bags right before the pandemic, instead of actually doing anything to stop it.

That skit at the end was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time:-!

They shouldn't be allowed to receive large donations from companies either.

Congress being able to take bribes, oh I meant lobbying, and being allowed to trade stocks is so incredibly unethical. Not only should Congress members not be able to trade stocks, but neither should their immediate family members!! And we need to do away with lobbying!

Thank you for this!

Thank you Trevor for making this on YT as well!

Money or Power, should only pick one, but not both.

One of my favorite episode. Funny and insightful.

So insider trading is illegal unless you're in Congress??? Can't even lie, that's baller😂😂

Sista NANCY Killin dem sha 🎼 🤣👍🏽

The other reason the stock act is unenforceable is because, when congressional committee members get information in these classified meetings, they cannot use the information from the meeting to use as proof of insider trading, because it's classified and can't be released to use as evidence of what information they got prior to making a trade. Stock act violations are literally impossible to prosecute.

Shout-out to Trevor for putting on David Kabuka 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

We need more of this, Noah!

This was funny and amazingly a sad commentary of reality. Thank you for being the best whistle-blower of our time that is not afraid to speak the truth!! ❤

I work for a global tech firm. When I was on a team that had access to financial data I was only permitted to buy/sell stock twice a year when it was deemed open. Couldn't we do the same ?

That guy in black has gotta be the fastest speed texter alive