☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoMore Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plungingwww.propublica.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down11cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlus_newspolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up184arrow-down1external-linkMore Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plungingwww.propublica.org☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square10linkfedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlus_newspolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squaregueybana [any]@hexbear.netBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 months ago why should you be punished? because it’s still insider trading if you’re a government official and that ‘rumor’ is coming from the mouth of the secretary of state.
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-28 months agoThat just reads like “can’t make it look too obvious or the rubes will catch on”
because it’s still insider trading if you’re a government official and that ‘rumor’ is coming from the mouth of the secretary of state.
That just reads like “can’t make it look too obvious or the rubes will catch on”