Gyroscopic Investing

I found it interesting that the Barron's article mentioned intentionally cherry-picked a time period from 2008 to present to show Ron Paul had a tremendously well performing portfolio, and argues that his votes are designed to somehow benefit his portfolio personally.

Ron Paul has had a tremendously consistent voting record and I'm sure he is under no illusions that a single house member's vote is going to increase or decrease the value of his personal holdings.

Surely Barron's must know at least a couple dozen Senators or House ranking committee members with stock holdings in the industries they are supposed to regulate?  Why they singled out Ron Paul's financial statements for extra scrutiny is beyond me.

I read somewhere that Eric Cantor was short the dollar. Not sure about the veracity of that, but if true would indicate a pretty strong conflict of interests.

doodle wrote: I read somewhere that Eric Cantor was short the dollar. Not sure about the veracity of that, but if true would indicate a pretty strong conflict of interests.

He owned a little bit of TBT in his portfolio, but it was a small part and his treasury exposure was net long.

Storm wrote: I found it interesting that the Barron's article mentioned intentionally cherry-picked a time period from 2008 to present to show Ron Paul had a tremendously well performing portfolio...

Why they singled out Ron Paul's financial statements for extra scrutiny is beyond me.

Because Barron's is part of the same media that (after he came in a close second place in the Iowa Straw Polls) conveniently deleted his achievement and him from the "top tier" list of Republican presidential candidates:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-a ... e-top-tier