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Some reflections on the highly unusual bond market moves of past week in this weekends NYT. Viva the Bund. Good piece from Melissa Eddy and Eshe Nelson: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

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Absolutely brutal

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Good point from George Saravelos at Deutsche Bank: a belligerent US foreign policy is at odds with foreign investors continuing to buy US government bonds.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for SEC investigation into Trump's handling of tariffs... youtu.be/dLZ-qAY4TP8

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Market manipulation is a CRIME. It's securities fraud. It undermines the integrity of financial markets. Call it pump-and-dump, insider trading, whatever you like. His immunity does NOT APPLY to criminal activity. And anyone in Congress that traded, can and should be prosecuted.

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An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

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'Laughing at us all': Trump whiplash boosts wealth of mega-rich by $304 billion www.alternet.org/they-are-lau...

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This is the way.

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I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder has just told us to stand up. We do not wait. I will be at my capitol this Saturday. We put this to bed. We keep it peaceful and if they do not listen, we have to make it so big that the world sees it from space. We shut down the country.

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Why was there a spike in trade volume right before Trump announced his tariff pause? In a normal world, there would be a fear of breaking the law. And we'd have a bipartisan push for answers.

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Historian here posting for no reason at all. U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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Why was there a spike in trade volume right before Trump announced his tariff pause? In a normal world, there would be a fear of breaking the law. And we'd have a bipartisan push for answers.

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This era of mass grift—driven by one of the most corrupt administrations in American history—isn’t just a crisis. It’s a massive opportunity for the Democratic Party to lead an unapologetic, system-wide anti-corruption campaign.

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they are busy insider trading

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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

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The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

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BREAKING: I’m demanding answers from the White House and Office of Government Ethics about whether anyone in the Trump family or administration profited off of this tariff chaos through insider trading.

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If anyone tracks the trades by Republicans, please share. We all need insider info right now. Let’s beat them at their own game #Voices4Victory

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Bernie agrees it’s highly likely Trump and his billionaire buddies bought stocks based on insider info before the market spiked - after his tariffs surrender

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Call me crazy, but I don't think insider trading is included in that "presidential immunity" bullshit.

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Souveraineté, j'écris ton non.

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Bardella ne met jamais les pieds au parlement européen mais il veut que ce dernier paie son DirCab. Ce parti, ce n’est pas le Rassemblement National, c’est la Estoupaga Company. www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe...

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FUN FACT: Individuals can face imprisonment, with the maximum sentence for an INSIDER TRADING violation being 20 YEARS.

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💥 "90 day delay except China" was leaked 1 day before the actual announcement. This is the biggest insider trading scheme in history.

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First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.

submitted 2 days ago • 969 comments

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

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Imagine that. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind they were tipped off? They are laughing at us all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 808 comments

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

Senator Adam Schiff will be writing the White House to demand information on whether there was insider trading within the Trump administration.

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I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

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