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MIDDAY POSTER: Pelosi Loves The Market

The House speaker doesn’t want lawmakers banned from trading stocks — which would hurt her family’s money moves.
MIDDAY POSTER: Pelosi Loves The Market
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On Wednesday, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted there was no reason sitting lawmakers and their spouses should be banned from trading stocks. “This is a free market,” she explained. “We're a free-market economy and they should be able to participate in that.”

Pelosi knows what she’s talking about — since she and her husband have benefited greatly from participating in that free-market economy.

Find out about that and much more in today’s Midday Poster below, exclusively for subscribers.

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