{"id":387775,"date":"2021-12-30T21:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nancy-pelosi-buys-call-options-for-google-disney-stocks\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:44:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:44:44","slug":"nancy-pelosi-buys-call-options-for-google-disney-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nancy-pelosi-buys-call-options-for-google-disney-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nancy Pelosi buys call options for Google, Disney stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Nancy Pelosi buys call options for Google, Disney stocks<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Congress is in recess for the holidays \u2014 but Nancy Pelosi has kept busy playing the market.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic majority leader and her husband, Paul Pelosi, recently bought millions of dollars worth of call options for stocks including Google, Salesforce, Roblox and Disney, financial <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/disclosures-clerk.house.gov\/public_disc\/ptr-pdfs\/2021\/20020106.pdf\">disclosures published Thursday show.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The purchases occurred from Dec. 17 to Dec. 21 \u2014 just days after Pelosi insisted in a press conference that members of Congress should be allowed to trade individual stocks despite often being privy to insider information that can move markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a free-market economy,\u201d Pelosi told reporters, adding that members of Congress \u201cshould be able to participate in that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nancy-paul-pelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Nancy and Paul Pelosi\" class=\"wp-image-20662923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nancy-paul-pelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nancy-paul-pelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nancy-paul-pelosi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Nancy and Paul Pelosi routinely trade millions of dollars in tech stocks. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pelosi family\u2019s trades this month include Google and Salesforce call options worth between $500,000 and $1 million each, as well as Roblox call options valued at between $100,000 and $250,000. The duo also bought up between $250,000 and $500,000 in calls for chipmaker Micron <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> and between $100,000 and $250,000 of Disney call options in disclosures that were earlier reported by Congresstrading.com.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Pelosi runs Financial Leasing Services, a real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm. In recent years he\u2019s made big-money bets on companies his wife is supposed to regulate, including Amazon, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le and Google.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/roblox.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Roblox\" class=\"wp-image-20662928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/roblox.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/roblox.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/roblox.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Pelosis bought Roblox call options valued at between $100,000 and $250,000.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pavlo Gonchar \/ SOPA Images\/Sipa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>December\u2019s calls \u2014 which are set to expire in late 2022 and early 2023 \u2014 show that the Pelosis believe tech stocks are going to continue their current bull run in the new year, according to Thomas Hayes of Great Hill Capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re trying to ride the momentum,\u201d Hayes told The Post. \u201cThe Pelosis\u00a0live in San Francisco \u2014 they\u2019re around a lot of hype so I\u2019d see how they\u2019re caught up in the euphoria.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Some DC insiders have speculated that Pelosi is slow-walking bipartisan legislation that would hurt big tech firms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Critics on both the left and right have argued that members of Congress should be banned from trading individual stocks and instead only be allowed to invest in broader funds.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have slammed members of Congress trading stocks as \u201cbrazen\u201d and \u201cludicrous,\u201d while Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters recently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/arizona-senate-blake-masters-congress-stocks\">nicknamed Pelosi \u201cNaughty Nancy\u201d<\/a> and called for a ban on all stock trading by members of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under a law called the STOCK Act passed in 2012, members of Congress are required to disclose trades. But 52 members of Congress including Democratic Senators Diane Feinstein of California and Mark Kelly of Arizona, as well as Republican Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Roger Marshall of Kansas have all violated the law in recent years, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9#sen-tommy-tuberville-a-republican-from-alabama-2\">Insider reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s office did not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Democratic majority leader and her husband, Paul Pelosi, recently bought millions of dollars worth of call options for stocks including Google, Salesforce, Roblox and Disney, financial disclosures published&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/nancy-paul-pelosi-00.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[122838,52214,89888,54077,70360,70767],"class_list":["post-387775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-30-21","tag-congress","tag-insider-trading","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-wall-street","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}