It pays to be a politician in the United States…
First, there’s the substantial paycheck when you reach office (six-figures for pretty much all of them).
Then you’ve got the publicity. In a country where the new dream is to be famous for simply existing, politicians are the most successful reality TV stars ever.
And of course, there’s the power. U.S. politicians, even junior ones, are some of the loudest, most outspoken, and most listened-to people on the planet.
But when you dig a little deeper and take a look at their finances, you can see that it’s not really the paycheck, the publicity, or the power that drives these people to politics.
It’s the really easy money they start getting the second they join that exclusive “club.”
Where’d All THAT Come From?
Did you know that the 10 richest members of Congress have a collective net worth of well over $1.3 BILLION? Well, they do. And you can bet none of them got it by saving their $174,000 paychecks.
According to OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks congressional personal finance reports, these 10 people, as of 2018, had a combined net worth bigger than the GDP of several developing nations…
And if you think that’s impressive, just take a look at the biggest congressional wealth increases in the 10 years between 2008 and 2018 (the last year data is publicly available):
Even the bottom rung, a nearly 1,000% return over just 10 years, would be phenomenal for any investor. 11,312% is just plain unheard of.
But the thing is that not just any investor can get returns like that. You’ve got to be part of the “club” like these folks if you want gains like those.
And unfortunately, that “club” is about as close-knit as they come. They rarely take on new members. And when they do, it’s because those people have something they want.
But We’re Not Inside
We all know by now that many of these people make a lot of money by trading on what any reasonable person would call “insider information.”
But because they’re not technically “insiders” at any company, these politicians don’t see any problem trading on non-public information to get rich at our expense.
And no matter what party you affiliate with (or what party you despise), you’ve got a “friend” who’s up to no good.
From Republican Sen. David Perdue’s hundreds of trades on companies impacted by committees he’s on… to Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden pushing for legislation to help U.S. chip companies while his wife was busy buying up their stocks… everybody is guilty.
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Thanks to her husband’s investing prowess and her connections in Congress, everybody’s favorite Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, grew her net worth by nearly $100 million between 2008 and 2018. And just last year, in December 2020, the couple loaded up on Tesla calls just before Joe Biden announced his new electric vehicle (EV) plan.
Texas Republican Rep. Pat Fallon (who supervises the Defense Department’s tech spending) dumped his Microsoft stock right before the Pentagon canceled its $10 billion JEDI contract and sent the shares spinning.
And last year, California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein was investigated by the FBI and Justice Department regarding her husband’s prolific stock trading success in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic. They couldn’t prove she was cheating, but everyone knows what’s going on.
How else could members of Congress go from drowning in debt when elected to being multimillionaires within a few years?
How else could the average net worth for all U.S. representatives and senators be above $1.6 million while the rest of us are lucky to be “thousandaires”? Why would theirs go up when ours goes down?
It’s because they’re members of this special “club,” and not only do they get access to information before we do, but they get access to investments we before we do, too.
The Ex-Presidents Club
You see, it’s not just stock trading with inside information that’s made these people so incredibly wealthy. It’s their ability to buy stocks before anyone else can that really made them rich. I'm talking about buying stock in private companies.
It's the most prolifically profitable investment market in the world and (according to studies) regularly returns an average of 60% a year compared with the stock market's paltry 8%–10% average gain.
And that’s why this group of eiltes fought to keep those kinds of investments off-limits to regular people like us for decades. They don’t want to cut us in on the profits. They don’t want us as members of their “club.”
In fact, they went as far as to write laws and create a whole agency just to keep us out of the most lucrative investment market in history.
But to paraphrase Groucho Marx, that’s fine with me, because I’d never be a member of a club that would have me as a member.
Plus I’ve got a way for us to make those same kinds of investments — and potentially take home even bigger profits, too.
Since we can’t join them, we’re going to beat them instead.
YOUR Time to Shine
That's because just recently, a corner of that lucrative market was opened to retail investors like us.
No longer do you have to be a former president, senator, or king to reap the massive potential rewards of this marketplace.
All you need is a computer, an internet connection, and a pulse. And you can invest in the same kinds of opportunities that have helped one former vice president grow his net worth to over $200 million.
I’ve put together a report that details the whole situation.
You’ll learn about the deception orchestrated at the highest levels to keep us away from the profits.
You'll read about the legislation that blocked us AND you'll discover the secret loophole that let us get back in.
You'll have the opportunity to learn about some of the hottest investments in that space.
Plus, you’ll get the chance to join me and thousands of other investors who are taking back the power (and the profits) for ourselves.
You’ll be able to invest alongside us as we beat the political aristocracy at their own game.
You’ll never be allowed to join their “club.” But you can join me and everyone else who’s already taking advantage of these incredible opportunities.
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I’ll see you at the VIP table.
To your wealth,
Jason Williams
After graduating Cum Laude in finance and economics, Jason designed and analyzed complex projects for the U.S. Army. He made the jump to the private sector as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley, where he eventually led his own team responsible for billions of dollars in daily trading. Jason left Wall Street to found his own investment office and now shares the strategies he used and the network he built with you. Jason is the founder of Main Street Ventures, a pre-IPO investment newsletter; the founder of Future Giants, a nano cap investing service; and authors The Wealth Advisory income stock newsletter. He is also the managing editor of Wealth Daily. To learn more about Jason, click here.
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