Merchants of Death” Investing

Congress Doesn’t Care… If It Gets a Cut [The Daily FWD] September 23, 2024 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( “Merchants of Death” Investing Hi Reader, Here’s what our editors are looking at today… [Click here to learn more]( News: Dave Gonigam – Congress Cashes In It is an obvious conflict of interest when a member of Congress owns significant stock investments in a company and then votes to award the same company lucrative federal contracts. At least 50 members of Congress or their households own shares of military contractors — even while those companies receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation. How times change: In the mid-1930s, Congress held angry hearings into the companies that were labeled “merchants of death” — the arms-makers and banks that maneuvered to bring the United States into World War I. Nowadays, congress members are just fine with such activity — as long as they get their cut of the action. 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