An Invitation to Corruption
As long as lawmakers are allowed to trade individual stocks, disaster profiteering is always a risk.
This week, ProPublica and the Daily Beast reported that members of Congress sold equities after receiving briefings on the dangers of the novel coronavirus. The sales came before a global financial panic slashed stock prices around the world, and before the American public was broadly cognizant of the scale and danger of the virus.
Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, what looks like a large share of his personal holdings the day before Valentine’s Day, picking
