At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market.

6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures.

But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

When we get a Democratic government back, and they sue trump for all the insider trading and stock market manipulation he has done, they need to take all the money he gained as the fine. Plus jail time.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Zero chance of happening. I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm so tired of not being wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I just checked and civil statute of limitations is five years. Criminal six. There's hope at least, even if I'm similarly cynical.

    I really hope there are people left keeping track of these things, is the only thing. By noon there will be something else awful, by design, that makes us all forget about this.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah. If you follow the rules. If trump didn't follow the rules, why would the next administration need to?

    Of course they won't because they are democrats. But if the opposition had a spine at all they could just ignore the rules too

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