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Some jobs place restriction on your ability to trade individual stocks - I discovered this when I went to work at an investment management firm. This was a policy applied to all people that worked there.

I see no reason not to do the same thing for Congress. The legal space is well-traveled and the fundamental concern - namely, the perverse incentives resulting from asymmetric access to valuable information - is present in Congress the esame way as in a sizable investment firm.

Index funds and mutual funds are often exempt or subject to less scrutiny, and that could be here too.





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