Nancy and Paul Pelosi are trading large — with a wealth of hypocrisy
Democrats have carved out quite a niche for themselves as the party of the have-nots
even if it’s mostly a hypocritical marketing ploy. Bernie Sanders, the socialist, lives 
a pretty non-socialist life with a town house, a vacation home and all the comforts of 
the bourgeoisie while he claims to champion the proletariat.

There’s no shortage of similar examples. Recall the late Massachusetts senator and 
liberal icon Teddy Kennedy’s support of forced busing while sending his kids to private 
school back in the 1970s. The latest of these “freedom for me but not for thee” -
hypocrisies involves the matter of Paul Pelosi, the octogenarian hubby of Nancy Pelosi, 
the octogenarian lefty speaker of the House of Representatives.

Paul Pelosi has been killing it in the stock market in recent years, according to 
disclosure forms, for reasons that could well go beyond some innate ability to sense 
swings in the markets. His latest home run: Snapping up between $1 million and $5 
million in shares of computer chip darling Nvidia (via exercising call options) on June 
17, according to disclosure documents.

His timing, once again, was impeccable: He executed the trades as Congress moves closer 
to passing tens of billions of dollars in corporate-welfare subsidies for US 
semiconductor production. That’s good news for Nvidia and shareholders like Paul 
Pelosi. Since his bet, shares have risen nearly 10%. By my math, he could have pocketed 
a quick $500,000.
Maybe Paul Pelosi knows a thing or two about stock trading. Or maybe he’s just a 
savant, like Hillary Clinton, who years ago credited her reading of The Wall Street 
Journal with being able to make big bucks trading esoteric cattle futures.

One problem with giving Paul Pelosi the benefit of the doubt is that enough of his 
winners involve companies that appear to have been benefiting from legislation that his 
wife, as the powerful lefty house speaker, has a hand in.

Ummm . . .

Paul and Nancy have been married for going on 59 years. He’s been at Nancy’s side 
during her rise to the pinnacle of Democratic Party leadership. She has certainly 
benefited from his career as a successful Silicon Valley investor.
His trades are her trades
The reason we know about Paul Pelosi’s market prowess is because members of Congress 
are required to disclose such investments, and since he’s married to Nancy, his trades, 
under the disclosure rules, are her trades.

And it explains why Nancy -Pelosi is one of the richest members of Congress — with an 
estimated net worth of more than $100 million on an annual salary of about $200,000.

The power couple have a vineyard in tony Napa Valley plus many of the perks of wealth 
and status. She represents the dysfunctional congressional district in and around San 
Francisco, which means she’s regularly attacking wealth creators while virtue signaling 
about the poor and downtrodden — who remain so -under her watch.

It’s limousine liberalism on steroids. Happily for them, their allegiance to lefty 
politics somehow stops when it comes to businesses involving Paul.

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Paul is a longtime venture capitalist. Where’s Nancy on eliminating that controversial, 
anti-progressive venture-capitalist tax break known as the carried-interest deduction, 
which gives favorable tax treatment to him and other gazillionaires?

M.I.A.

Where is she on making sure members of Congress or their spouses can’t benefit from 
an -information edge — particularly on market-moving legislation?

Here, Nancy is a born-again capitalist. She and her hubby “should be able to 
participate in that,” she said last year when asked about her hubby’s trading.

Insider trading — or trading stocks on material, non-public information — is a crime, 
of course. Recent legislation puts people who use information they learned based on 
their position in Congress (or their spouse’s) in the same slimy bucket.

But most lawmakers who have been investigated for allegedly -using their position to 
trade almost always never face criminal charges. See the case of North Carolina 
Republican Sen. Richard Burr. Lawmakers get private briefings, as Burr did before 
selling stock just before the pandemic rocked the markets. They can and do point to the 
fact that the same information was swirling around on the Internet or business 
television.
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