Senators’ Stocks Beat the Market

02/27/2004 Mises Wire Christopher Coyne

Here is an article from the Financial Times website, reporting on a forthcoming article in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis . It finds that Senators’ portfolios outperformed the market over time, which suggests they trade on inside information--very timely, given the whole Martha fiasco.

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