Why the latest effort to ban stock trading in Congress is falling flat

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is trying to force a vote on a bill to ban stock trading. But leaders in both parties have other ideas.

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How billion-dollar bank fraud actually works, according to a former trader

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Nick Leeson is an English former derivatives trader who caused the collapse of Barings, London's oldest merchant bank, which had operated for 233 years. Working in the bank's Singapore office, he made a series of unauthorized speculative trades that ultimately lost $1.2 billion.

Why congressional stock-trade ban efforts are about to heat up

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she'll move to force a House vote on a bill to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene bought thousands of dollars in stock right before Trump's tariff pause sent markets soaring

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Marjorie Taylor Greene
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene purchased between $21,000 and $315,000 worth of stocks in 19 companies, beginning the day before President Donald Trump's tariff pause, a financial disclosure said.

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Tim Walz doesn't own any stocks: What to know about Kamala Harris' running mate's personal finances

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Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota
Gov. Tim Walz's financial disclosures reveal a man of fairly modest means.

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The Senate has a new plan to ban congressional stock trading. Here's what's in it.

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Sens. Jeff Merkley, Josh Hawley, and Jon Ossoff
Sens. Jeff Merkley, Josh Hawley, and Jon Ossoff came together with a new plan to ban lawmakers from trading stocks.

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Traders have invested $55 million using an app that helps them copy congressional stock portfolios

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Nancy Pelosi and Dan Crenshaw look in opposite directions.

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A 24-year-old stock trader who made over $8 million in 2 years shares the 4 indicators he uses as his guides to buy and sell

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Jack Kellogg, stock trader

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A financial crisis is already baked-in due to the Fed's 'deranged' policy experiments, John Hussman says. Here are the bubble expert's top 9 quotes.

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John Hussman hopes the "Federal Reserve learns the right lesson this time around."

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