A number of Republican Senate candidates running on anti-Big Tech platforms have stock holdings in the same companies they are vowing to hold accountable if elected to Congress.
WASHINGTON â Weeks before two Georgia runoff elections that will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate, Democrats were hammering Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler over stock trades that, to critics, seemed suspiciously well-timed â and not entirely unlike the ones that landed former Rep. Chris Collins in federal prison. The Justice Department investigated Perdue for insider trading! noted an ad from a Democratic Super PAC. Corrupt stock trades! proclaims another Democratic Super PAC ad attacking Loeffler.
In fact, federal investigators dropped their probes into Perdue s stock trades, as well as Loeffler s â but the duo from Georgia are by no means alone among senators whose trading habits raised suspicions this year. Similar allegations swirled around Sens. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, and Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, but investigators dropped their probes of those two senators, too. And Sen. Richard Burr, a Republica
The Finance 202: U.S. wealth just hit a new record, even as more people steal in order to eat Tory Newmyer
with Brent D. Griffiths Americans collectively are richer than ever and getting more so. That fact would come as a surprise to tens of millions, including those who now have to steal to eat. But the bottom line for the total household net worth in the United States continues to swell: It rose 3.2 percent in the third quarter to $123.5 trillion, a Federal Reserve report showed Thursday. The surging stock market accounted for most of the gain, padding overall wealth by $2.8 trillion over the three-month period. Rising real estate values and increased savings contributed, too.
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