She isn’t alone. Others have written of the extraordinary stock trading skills one develops immediately upon becoming a member of congress.
FWIW,
One of my best clients was a former Congressman, a highly connected lobbyist that made a number of losing trades based on what he “Thought” he knew.
I can’t even quantify the number of phone calls I received from well placed and trusted people that said “Buy X now because they are being bought out tomorrow”.
You live and learn, and while most of their predictions never materialized, it’s the few that did that makes this game worth playing.
I’ve been Fucked over many times by guys I thought where my friends and at the of the day I/we laugh about it.
At the same time they gave me insight and I gave them insight into where the big money was moving.
I made my clients and myself boat loads of money on buy out speculation, or “Inside Information”, that was rampant and became a crap shoot.
A guy that has a $10,000, or $100,000 or $1,000,000 account makes no difference. It’s just a decimal point.