Since it's election season it's a good opportunity to introduce a pet project I've been working on. Since 2012, the financial disclosures of congress have been made public. Considering what has happened recently with Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler (
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/congress-i...), I was curious to see if members of congress might make superior investments due to the information they are privileged to.
For now I only have data for the house of representatives, but it's still fascinating to data mine this huge trove of hard to get data (1500+ pdfs so far this year). Some representatives like Hon Alan S Lowenthal made 100% gains in the past 6 months in niche sectors like solar companies.
