# Owning and trading stocks by Members of Congress

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owning-and-trading-stocks-by-members-of-congress/957414>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 8, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owning-and-trading-stocks-by-members-of-congress/957414 "2022-01-08T07:05:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owning-and-trading-stocks-by-members-of-congress/957414/17 "2022-01-09T16:31:16Z")

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Here’s my proposal-that-no-one-asked-for-but-I’ll-say-it-anyway:

Allow Congresscritters to invest only in a special issue of government bonds. Bonds that stop paying interest and have their maturity value go to zero if the U.S. defaults on its debt.

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