Spouses, taxes and crypto: The unanswered questions for Congress' stock trading ban

Spouses, taxes and crypto: The unanswered questions for Congress' stock trading ban

Wait, isn’t insider trading already banned? Following a “60 Minutes” expose of trades lawmakers made during the 2008 financial crisis, Congress in 2012 passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act. The law requires members and their spouses to disclose stock transactions and bars them from trading on nonpublic information “derived” from their official positions. … Read more