Tennessee lawmaker blasts DC ‘sewer’ for out-of-control stock trading, claims Congress is scamming taxpayers to get rich

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• Nancy Pelosi is not even in the top 10 worst offenders for congressional stock trading

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• For most people, the best thing to do is own the S&P 500 index fund

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• Congress is a sewer created by man, not a swamp, and has been enriching itself on taxpayers' dime for too long

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• When a member of Congress makes 400-600 trades per year, something is wrong and it's a scam being played on the American public

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• A 25% portfolio allocation to gold is not excessive and gold is an insurance policy likely to remain in a winning mode amid dollar weakness

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• Congress has been enriching itself on the taxpayers' dime for too long and the system is as crooked as a dog's leg

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• Insider trading in Congress explodes the cynicism that fuels the right and doesn't benefit Democrats

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• People typically don't have an adequate amount of gold in their portfolio, and gold is a very effective diversifier when bad times come

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• Would purchase 1% of all apartment houses in the country for $25 billion if offered

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