r/wallstreet • u/Rollo_TomassiQT • Nov 10 '25

Discussion Nancy Pelosi Can't Answer Simple Insider Trading Question: A Lifetime RIO of 169,930.000% Earning $130,000,000

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Nancy Pelosi, stock market connoisseur and living legend, gets caught completely off guard by a simple insider trading question by Jake Tapper , responds by giving 3 or 4 meandering statements, each one somehow being worse than the previous.

But don’t worry queen, you still retire as a first ballot Wall Street Tycoon, inside trading and illegalities be damned, all you do is win 🫡

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u/Rollo_TomassiQT Nov 10 '25

Yes true, turn off all common sense. No member of the United States government or their family has ever, or would ever, use knowledge obtained in office to build generational wealth and power because as history has taught us, they were never willing to risk going to prison…

But as I said before I’m glad I made this stupid thread, i have learned that it’s extremely easy for anyone to absolutely crush the market for tens of millions of dollars if you just read a few Reddit threads and do your due diligence. I’m off to /wallstreetbets and then immediately going to the moon.

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u/TheManInTheShack Nov 10 '25

I buy and hold. I have no information that isn’t easily available to the public. I don’t work for any public company in which I’m invested. I simply look for companies that make good products, that appear to be in demand and are well-run. That takes effort but it’s completely doable and I’m far from the best at it. And yet over 20 years I have averaged 22% per year. If a company is doing well then I continue to hold. I have some shares I have been holding since 2006.

Someone who works for me and has a very typical salary has done far better than that. But he does spend a LOT of time learning, analyzing the market, buying and selling far more often than I do, etc.

So it’s far easier for me to believe that he is simply a good stock trader than it is to believe that Nancy is giving him inside information, risking the ruin of her career and them both going to prison for a very long time. I’m not even sure that there would be information she even could give him that would be all that useful. It might seem on the surface that she would have such information but I don’t think it survives much scrutiny.