Recent news cycles have featured endless accusations about members of Congress allegedly profiting from stock-trading. These criticisms fall on both sides of the aisle.

Wrongdoing is hard to prove for certain, and maybe there’s nothing to see here, but perception is everything. It is little wonder then that only one-in-four Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job.

There is no getting around the fact that members of Congress are privy to information the average investor doesn’t have and, since politicians buy and sell stocks like the rest of us, there is going to be an understandable public distrust in their ability to completely unsee what they learn every day and then not act on it at night.

How can this growing issue get put to bed?

One remedy is zero tolerance.

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