{"id":17623,"date":"2012-02-03T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:13:28","slug":"senate-approves-insider-trading-bill-marketwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/senate-approves-insider-trading-bill-marketwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves insider-trading bill &#8211; MarketWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent quarterly Economic Commentary, we made room for a special section to explore the backhanded dealings of Congress when it comes to insider information.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone read it in Washington&#8230; Probably not, but either way, this is a start and <!--more-->maybe it is the beginning of a new dawn on the Hill&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON MarketWatch \u201d\u201d The Senate Thursday approved legislation seeking to curtail insider trading of securities by lawmakers and officials in the executive branch, responding to pressure by the White House in the wake of reports that some members of Congress have used privileged information for financial gain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/senate-leaders-push-insider-trading-bill-2012-02-02\">Senate approves insider-trading bill &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/itunes_subscribe3-5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent quarterly Economic Commentary, we made room for a special section to explore the backhanded dealings of Congress when it comes to insider information. Maybe someone read it in Washington&#8230; Probably not, but either way, this is a start and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-17623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-politics","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}