{"id":1130809,"date":"2021-12-18T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130809"},"modified":"2021-12-18T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T19:44:36","slug":"pelosi-torched-for-stock-trading-remarks-its-a-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-torched-for-stock-trading-remarks-its-a-free-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi torched for stock trading remarks: It\u2019s a free market"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-torched-for-stock-trading-remarks-its-a-free-market%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130809&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2616599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2616599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 DECEMBER 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on December 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:11 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, December 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has come under scrutiny as she rejects placing a ban on congressional insider trading. In an op-ed on Friday, New Republic\u2019s Matt Ford warned Pelosi\u2019s disregard for government corruption could have dire consequences to American society.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Pelosi\u2019s rocky remarks to the press earlier this week. Pelosi was asked if she\u2019s aware that at least 48 of her colleagues and 182 senior aides broke transparency laws about stock trading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a responsibility to report on the stock, but I\u2019m not familiar with that five-month review. But if people aren\u2019t reporting, they should be,\u201d said Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Some have been critical of lawmaker stock trading due to their influence over regulatory policies. Pelosi rejected a ban on insider trading, suddenly voicing her support for the free market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause this is a free market and people\u2026we are a free market economy, they should be able to participate in that,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pelosi\u2019s husband operates an investment firm in San Francisco and made a $5.3 million profit from one of his trades with alphabet, which is Google\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORTER: &#8220;Should members of congress and their spouses be banned from trading individual stocks while serving in congress?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PELOSI: &#8220;No\u2026We are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2SNqSCwFEU\">pic.twitter.com\/2SNqSCwFEU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1471153762056216582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s apparent newfound support for the free market runs in stark contrast with her track record of pushing socialist policies on everyday Americans in the name of so-called equity and social justice. Speaking in London last September, Pelosi went so far as to shame Americans who have profited from the free market and warned it must be reformed for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can say that in America, capitalism is our system. It is our economic system, but it has not served our economy as well as it should,\u201d Pelosi said last year. \u201cSo you cannot have a system where we\u2026the success of some springs from the exploitation of the workers and springs from the exploitation of the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Business Insider, Pelosi is the 15th wealthiest member of Congress with a minimum estimated net worth of $46 million.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/day-2-of-ghislaine-maxwell-trial-wraps-up\/\">Ghislaine Maxwell Will Not Take The Stand In Her Defense<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 DECEMBER 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on December 15, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}