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Does exposure to the stock market in legislators’ personal investment portfolios affect their vote choices? Do personal financial interests matter as much or more than the typical predictors of legislative decision-making such as party and constituency? I argue that legislator...
I haven’t seen any polling on this, but if Mitt Romney wants to make this election about whether we need more cops, firefighters, and teachers I think Barack Obama ought to accept the invitation.Of course the real hard-core Randian libertarian...
Having already been critiqued for my economics acumen by Andrew Gelman earlier, I figured I might as well wander even deeper into the lion’s den by trying my hand at probability theory. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but despite...
Insider trading in Congress is back in the news, this time because Congress is trying to set up more stringent regulations against it. The reason: Almost all of the 173 House members cosponsoring the legislation signed on following a 60...
Princeton political scientist Nolan McCarty applies research by political scientists to the unfolding story of whether members of Congress have benefited from insider trading: A recent 60 Minutes segment and a new book claim that members of Congress from both...