GET THIS...

According to his excellent book Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer, a study was made in the Journal of Fiancial and Quantitiative Analysis (I bet that was some interesting reading!) by his students about our "esteemed" US Senators:

* The average investor underperforms the market. (That would be the likes of...me.)

* The averge corporate insider, trading his own company's stock, beats the market by 7% a year. (Of course, this type of action could send one to prison.)

* The average hedge fund beats the marketby between 7% and 8% a year. (Except for mine!)

* The average US senator beats the market by 12% per year !

Now, is there anybody out there that really believes those miscreants are that much smarter than the rest of us, or could they be enriching and gorging themselves off the information they are privy to while deciding the laws that our governing the rest of us?