Michael Hiltzik: The story alleging insider trades on Trump actions is dubious, but so is this argument against it
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Oct 19, 2019
3 minutes
The Wall Street and political junkie arms of Twitter are, well, all a-twitter over an article in Vanity Fair implying that someone has been pocketing billions by front-running sudden policy shifts by President Donald Trump.
We don't want to spend too much time debunking the article, which has been dismantled in detail by others, including Matt Levine of Bloomberg (a former investment banker) and futures market experts such as George Pearkes.
But we do want to take aim at one of
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