![[OC] Rep. Debbie Schultz (D-FL) estimated to have made +495% on her mining-focused portfolio](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/kpjgdjsrabgg1-1024x844.png "[OC] Rep. Debbie Schultz (D-FL) estimated to have made +495% on her mining-focused portfolio")
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) is estimated to have made +495% on her mining-focused portfolio
Some notes:
- More than 70% of her portfolio are mining stocks
- Hecla Mining (+443%): Gold, silver, lead & zinc mining. Operations in Alaska, Idaho, Quebec, Yukon.
- New Gold (+956%): Canadian gold/silver mining company. Operations in BC and Ontario.
- Alamos Gold (+483%): Canadian gold and precious metals mining company. Operations in Ontario, Sonora (MX), Oregon, Turkey.
- Most of her mining buys are around 2022/23, while the last one is in 2024 (see 3rd pic)
Source: insidercat.com (based on House financial disclosures)
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Data source: House financial disclosures aggregated by [insidercat.com](http://insidercat.com)
Tools: I used Python to parse House financial disclosures dataset, and used Next.js for visualization. House/Senate disclosures are in public domain.
For those interested, Senate lobbying data, Insider transactions (SEC), Executive compensation (SEC), OGE financial disclosure forms for members of govt are also in public domain
She’ll never catch up with Trump’s $1.4 billion he’s made by selling the presidency in the last year.
Make trading illegal for representatives.
Until then, all of them are getting rich from it.
If they aren’t, they are idiots. It’s legal to get rich playing these games.
Trump is much better at monetizing his office
I mean, anybody who has hedged their bets against the instability of the dollar by investing in precious metals (or adjacent industries) have done well with those investments. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to think that the current administration has sowed the seeds of instability of US currency which one could argue is the driving factor of precious metal increases. I mean, I got some silver dollars that have gone up like 400% in the last year. Am I guilty of insider trading?
But she is a POS for what she did to Bernie in 2016.
By far one of my least favorite democratic elected officials. Will never forgive her for her conduct in 2016.
They should have done it the Rick Scott way and made their millions before they entered office.
^just ^don’t ^ask ^him ^how
Ya, I hate insider trading as well and do believe congressional stock trading should be outlawed.
However, if you pay attention to precious metals and global buying of them (not many do), this was obviously coming. No insider info needed, global governments are buying gold on a record scale for a while now. Buy gold people, 10k by the end of the year is not a meme, though I see 8k as more realistic.
I’m not going to defend DWS or disagree that congresspeople shouldn’t be allowed to trade, etc.
But FWIW a ton of people have been talking about mining being one of the next big industries to pop off for the past couple years. Mining & modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). I’m not ‘in the know’ at all & even I bought some of these stocks a couple years back.
Oh good the woman who worked as head of the DNC in tandem with Hilary Clinton to tank Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run and was rewarded with a congressional seat has become embroiled in a sketchy speculative investment bubble. I love this country.
I work in tax software and have some of these types of mining/resource extraction clients. Their business is almost entirely dependent upon federal whims – EPA approves a mine company moonshots, they deny the mine company literally closes shop.
It’s extremely susceptible to (government) insider trading. If anyone had word from inside EPA etc on approvals, or themselves could vote or learn how a vote would go on relaxing certain limitations, could easily act in that info to get great returns.
As an FYI, as a humble software sales guy, I am prohibited/heavily restricted from trading individual stocks as I am privy to non-public information.
Imma be honest… this isn’t that weird. Most of this gain was the last year.
I had a mining focused portfolio and between 2019 and 2022 it lost like 70% value.
How many bills has she voted on the affect this industry?
im not too worried about 4 year old trades that have really only shown gains to index in last 9 months.
I do support them having trading bans but I think the issues they address are more near term.
So she grew $34,000 into $204,000 in 4 years. Big deal. Could not possibly care less.
I 6x’d my money riding the silver wave in teh last 3 months.. EVeryone is making money in rare metals right now. Only people not making money are the ones notplaying. this is not insider anything, the silver rush has been on for months.
Well what a surprise:
Committee Memberships:
[Energy, Water Development, and Related Agencies](https://appropriations.house.gov/subcommittees/energy-and-water-development-and-related-agencies-117th-congress)
To be fair mining was clearly a go once computers took off again. Precious metals was my dads plan 16 years ago
I’ll always remember that one congressperson who said that making trading for them illegal would “take away the incentive” to serve in congress, like it’s some selling point. Like it’s a treat the get for being good little boys and girls.
Congress has forgotten who it serves.
In other words, she correctly guessed that gold was going up.
Starting with a flight to safety from Trump’s instability, turning into a speculative run.
Using exactly the same public info we all have.
Hell, she had gold before Trump won … she just likes gold mining stocks.
She’s lucky, or a witch. Insider trading, it ain’t.
Pretty much anyone who correctly put together “Trump will sow chaos, fear, and destabilize things” with “precious metals and mining do well in periods of chaos, fear, and instability” and “AI will drive hardware demands which requires precious metals and mining” has a portfolio that looks like this.
Unfortunately, I didn’t put that together lol. It’s always obvious in retrospect.
That’s exactly the problem. And all parties are part of this. The dems do exactly the same shit.
The increases are eyebrow raising buuut, if anything this tells us she wasn’t doing anything screwy, especially since these trades were made multiple years ago.
Isn’t basically 90% of this because of a ridiculous ongoing precious metals bubble that noone foresaw and that politicians (at least opposition politicians) have no control over?
Did she miss the dip in the last picture?
This one in particular isn’t the gotcha people think it is, these stocks were owned before Trump’s term and all went up as expected due to his EPA fuckery. I threw some cash at a penny stock mine without much thought, then it went up to $2 a share after Trump won because of course anything that fucks the environment is going to get hot when he’s destroyed any protective regulations.
*That being said*, get every elected official out of public stocks while they’re serving, as well as a five year post-service moratorium. Either that or tax it at 90% and place all those funds into a UBI dividend.
This is part of the reason.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1qptrsd/gold_50_year_chart_is_absolutely_insane/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1qptrsd/gold_50_year_chart_is_absolutely_insane/)
Am I reading this right: Did she outperform the S&P by over 500%?
Although I do agree that congresspeople should be barred from stock trading for the duration of their term, this isn’t really that crazy. I’ve invested a good amount of my portfolio in precious metals and mining since the election, and I’ve gotten similar gains on them. I’m not remotely an accomplished or experienced trader, nor do I have any insider knowledge. It just seemed like a logical thing to do amid the threat of actions that would destabilize the dollar.