Insider Trading
razib | September 21, 2009Lawmakers' inside advantage to trading:
A year ago this week Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke dashed to Capitol Hill. They hastily met with a small group of congressional leaders to tell them that the country was teetering on the edge of financial catastrophe.
Paulson and Bernanke asked Congress to spend hundreds of billions to save the banks.
JOHN BOEHNER: We clearly have an unprecedented crisis in our financial system.
GOP House Minority Leader John Boehner...
BOEHNER: "On behalf of the American people our job is to put our partisan differences aside and to work…