Did Paul Ryan profit from insider trading?

[skookerasbil]

Jonathan Alter is on MSNBC every weeknight..........in the interest of full disclosure!!!

 

[skookerasbil]

Lakota is sitting home thinkiing this is going to turn the election.....................



Lets ask Zach what he thinks...............

 

[SniperFire]

'Yeah, Liberals have been getting in to a lot of trouble with that claim lately (See Below) . I've already ended one thread with this, how many more do I need to blow away so that liberals will stop making this sladerous claim? '


Liberals aren't the least bit interested in being truthful. All that want is traction.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Congressman Ryan's stock trades deserve the closest scrutiny. So why is he getting a pass from the media?

The Paul Ryan Insider Trading Story Won’t Die Because It’s Legitimate

Team Romney wants you to believe Ryan didn’t really profit from privileged information. Don’t buy it.

Revealed: Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan’s Insider Trading Don't Add Up


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulIw27CKms&feature=player_embedded]Paul Ryan -- Insider Trading and Attack on Medicare - YouTube[/ame]

Its okay. He's a Republican and lying, cheating and stealing is just the way they do things.

Its call Business As Usual and its none of our business.

Don't think. Don't ask questions. Just be sure to vote for him.

 

[Lakhota]

Jonathan Alter is on MSNBC every weeknight..........in the interest of full disclosure!!!

To my knowledge, Jonathan Alter has nothing to do with the OP.

 

[emptystep]

The Paul Ryan Insider Trading Story Won’t Die Because It’s Legitimate

Revealed: Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan’s Insider Trading Don't Add Up

Yeah, Liberals have been getting in to a lot of trouble with that claim lately (See Below) . I've already ended one thread with this, how many more do I need to blow away so that liberals will stop making this sladerous claim?

Paul Ryan's Bank Stock Trading
Let me apologize. I originally had a too-credulous item here linking to a piece at The Richmonder alleging that Paul Ryan has sold bank shares after a closed door meeting with Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke on the financial crisis in 2008. As Eric Platt explains he certainly seems to have sold the shares on the same day as the meeting, but the meeting happened in the evening by which time the markets would have been closed. One can perhaps construct a scenario by which the Richmonder's theory of the case holds up, but they don't have the goods and I shouldn't have passed their analysis on with no qualification and so little scrutiny of my own.

As Brad DeLong writes, for one reason or another Ryan did quite a lot of trading of individual bank stocks in 2008 so the timing of this particularly transaction isn't particularly noteworthy when put in that context. For posterity's sake the original item is below now in strikethrough.

So you're saying Ryan was daytrading stocks in 2008? Come on? That quote is pretty much an admission of guilt right there.

 

[Zander]

Somebody better call the police!!!

 

[Peach]

Congressman Ryan's stock trades deserve the closest scrutiny. So why is he getting a pass from the media?

The Paul Ryan Insider Trading Story Won’t Die Because It’s Legitimate

Team Romney wants you to believe Ryan didn’t really profit from privileged information. Don’t buy it.

Revealed: Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan’s Insider Trading Don't Add Up


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulIw27CKms&feature=player_embedded]Paul Ryan -- Insider Trading and Attack on Medicare - YouTube[/ame]

His ever changing positions on the same issues are taking up all the space now.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Uninformed sources tell me that Harry Reid received bags of cash from the Mafia, in return he helped them dispose of bodies, launder money and do some illegal stuff too

 

[The Infidel]

Uninformed sources tell me that Harry Reid received bags of cash from the Mafia, in return he helped them dispose of bodies, launder money and do some illegal stuff too

and until he disproves this we need to have an inquirey as to who knew what and when they knew it.

 

[Lakhota]

Uninformed sources tell me that Harry Reid received bags of cash from the Mafia, in return he helped them dispose of bodies, launder money and do some illegal stuff too

I would guess that you, and all your sources, are very uninformed.

 

[skookerasbil]

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There are three sites all the k00ks go for their news: Huffington Post, Alternet and DailyKos.

 

[Darkwind]

We know that Harry "pass the cheddar" Reid has become a mulch-millionaire on insider trading.

 

[Zander]

I have it from very, very, reliable sources, sources that wish to be unnamed, that Harry Reid earned his millions by being a drug mule. He would store vast quantities of heroin up his ass and walk it across the border. He was able to shove a great deal of heroin up his ass because it was stretched out so much from his earlier career of being a paid gay bottom in the Castro. He earned a good living that way, but he felt the best and only use of his now ruined and stretched anus would be transporting drugs. He did what he could to provide....we should respect his sacrifice.

 

[Lakhota]

Even if Ryan did commit insider trading, I doubt he would have much to worry about. The mainstream media is unlikely to pursue the story this close to Election Day. And I doubt Eric Holder has enough spine to investigate - especially after recently letting Goldman Sachs off the hook regarding the Wall Street meltdown.

Matt Taibbi: Goldman Case Shows Eric Holder 'Has No Balls'

Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

 

[Zander]

Also, these same unnamed by very reliable sources confirmed that Eric Holder was one of Harry's best customers. It was not for the drugs....

 

[Lakhota]

Also, these same unnamed by very reliable sources confirmed that Eric Holder was one of Harry's best customers. It was not for the drugs....

Zander, are you spamming this thread because you're afraid of the possibility that it might be true? You seem concerned...

 

[jillian]

Congressman Ryan's stock trades deserve the closest scrutiny. So why is he getting a pass from the media?

because there are no laws prohibiting insider trading by members of congress and it's not illegal and is epidemic in congress.

ryan wouldn't be noteworthy in that regard. and it's true of people from both parties.

 

[jillian]

Also, these same unnamed by very reliable sources confirmed that Eric Holder was one of Harry's best customers. It was not for the drugs....

let me know when you spam one of the rightwingnut threads, Z

 

[GuyPinestra]

Also, these same unnamed by very reliable sources confirmed that Eric Holder was one of Harry's best customers. It was not for the drugs....

Zander, are you spamming this thread because you're afraid of the possibility that it might be true? You seem concerned...

Yo Injun!! You should read more sources and quit settling so easy into your confirmation bias.

He'd been trading bank stocks pretty regularly throughout the year.

Hard to prove any wrongdoing.

Besides, Congress was EXEMPT from insider trading laws.

IOW, even if Ryan was GUILTY, which the evidence DOESN'T support, he NEVER broke the law.