{"id":502591,"date":"2026-02-27T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502591\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:37:16","slug":"opinion-stop-insider-trading-act-backed-by-trump-has-a-good-transparency-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502591\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Stop Insider Trading Act backed by Trump has a good transparency idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A6SJPZGZ2VHRLBTHNG25QYAVRI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Most lawmakers stood and cheered during Tuesday\u2019s State of the Union when President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act. The president said the legislation would prevent members from \u201ccorruptly\u201d profiting off the stock market. But insider trading is already illegal, and building a consensus around tighter restrictions for Congress has proved nearly impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most lawmakers stood and cheered during Tuesday\u2019s State of the Union when President Donald Trump called on Congress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,7603,200695,133,191371,131,132,200696],"class_list":{"0":"post-502591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-editorial-board","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-partner-exclude","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance","17":"tag-the-posts-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}