Congressional trades before & after Trump’s $8.9B Intel deal – Trump Admin estimated to be up +136% [OC]

We pulled House/Senate financial disclosures since 2022-May for INTC. For dollar values, we took the midpoint of the value ranges in the disclosures.

There might be errors in the data as some of the disclosure documents are literally filed by hand. Congress members have to declare their stock transactions in 45 days per STOCK act, though most disclose within 2 weeks.

Data source: House/Senate financial disclosures (all are in public domain).

To learn more on Trump admin & Intel deal: [https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1748/intel-and-trump-administration-reach-historic-agreement-to](https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1748/intel-and-trump-administration-reach-historic-agreement-to)

Tools: Python for data pipelines, Next.js for visualization and display

They should just rename Congress as The Inside Trader’s Club

Am I missing something here, or does it look like Intel stock buys were happening quite frequently *whenever* the price went low for the last four years, then got even more frequent when it went *really* low? I bought quite a tranche of it last year at that really low point, as people were talking about the likelihood of Intel “failing”. I quickly realized that was an enormous opportunity, as the idea of a US-based semiconductor giant being allowed to die, or being sold to foreign interests, was strategically ridiculous. I didn’t anticipate government investment, but it hardly mattered. Jensen Huang could’ve rolled his spare change and bought it – and would have.

My point being – I ain’t that bright, yet I caught on and had the money to buy. Is it ridiculous that some congressmen with decent financial advisors would do the same? I think not.

I’m pretty savagely anti-politician, but this case looks weak to me.

actual question: Is there a way to just trade the same positions as they do or do we get that info way too late

Seems like a big nothing. Or it’s not a great example of the problem. I mean congress trading stock is gross, and all arguments for it to be allowed can be made with like 30 day advance notifications in a public register or limited windows throughout the year. MTG for example was very obviously day trading on insider knowledge and getting rich based on Trump on-off again announcements regarding tariffs.

But this chart shows buys going all of the way down and no more than usual going back up. The Trump admin buying intel stock might be one of the one or two things they’ve done or said that I haven’t hated. It’s no different than Obama buying gm, GE, Tesla, banks, etc. Those decisions saved a lot of jobs and industry. Saved a lot of billionaires hides who were taking risks too, which is a hard square to circle, but I guess I think about it as they were always going to be relatively fine even if they lost a 0 from their bank account.

He’s openly accepting bribes for pardons and international favor and he has personally enriched himself by billions through corruption in only the last year, but the intel stock the administration purchased is owned by taxpayers. Letting intel go bankrupt would be bad for America in a lot of ways.

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You mean everyone that gets into Congress and their net worth skyrockets isn’t just fortuitously winning the lottery?