Pelosi buckles, pushes stock-trading ban

I know the argument against term limits is that it puts power into shodow structures of the government, but man oh man regardless of what side you are on I think that everyone has been in power too long.

The only reason she would back this is if:

a) there are giant loopholes

b) it doesn't ban her husband from buying individual stocks

c) she knows there is no way this passes

I'm sure we all get the sense that there's probably going to be a big fat loophole somewhere.

I think what might have been wiser is better transparency from politicians and their families.

Either having a real-time trading dashboard that announces all of their trades in real-time, or set a requirement for them to pre-announce trades at least 1 day before. "If Apple's price is below $X tomorrow, then I intend to buy X calls" and make it so that these pre-announced trades are the only action they're allowed to do.

But nothing really tackles the root of the dirty corruption problem so long as the government is involved in essentially picking the winners and losers in the marketplace. That's the real root of the issue that neither side even pretends to address.

We know from the bill text that it does ban spouses from trading individual stocks. You forgot a fourth reason, which is probably the actual reason, that not supporting it could make her lose her position as speaker and prevent her from holding leadership positions in her party.