Josephs: JD Vance divested individual stocks to hold Bitcoin, indexes, and gold
Chris Josephs · Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 18, 2025 · at 19:37
Chris Josephs, co-founder of Autopilot, evaluates congressional portfolio disclosures while discussing conflicts of interest in political stock ownership.
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“Like, to JD Vance's credit, I think he divested out of his individual stocks. He now only owns Bitcoin, S&P, QQQ, Dow and some gold. So he is very, kind of, aligned with America. If America wins, his portfolio will win. But he's not in, you know, he's not in meta. He's not, like, picking individual winners where the conflict of interest can happen.”
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