re: The SEC has charged Houston resident with insider trading by spying on wife's Zoom calls

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Congress is subject to insider trading laws too, but I too think they need to be held in blind trusts or at least restricted to ETFs/mutual funds.

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Yes and no. The STOCK (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) Act requires them to report trades and "prohibits" using non-public information for private profit, but they police themselves and it's doubtful anyone would ever be charged with insider trading as it would then become a massive political football which would likely impact every major player in both parties in both chambers of Congress.

So there is a law, but it's so likely that it will never be enforced that it may as well not exist.