Nancy Pelosi, alleged insider trader, announces retirement

Nancy Pelosi is set to leave politics in 2027, after what will be a 39-year career. Despite nearly four decades of service, she will likely be remembered most for the allegations of insider trading which followed her around.

Pelosi completely lost it when Tapper brought up her insider trading jab:

“Why do you have to read that?! That’s not what I agreed to come and talk about”

Shady answer screams guilt. 3000% gains? No way without insider trading@DOGE, investigate her nowpic.twitter.com/VRIjdzHWSl

— SpeedySMM (@speedysmm4547) July 31, 2025

Nancy Pelosi — The insider

According to Investopedia:

Insider trading is the buying or selling of a company’s securities by individuals who possess material, nonpublic information about that company.

You know who regularly comes into contact with ‘nonpublic’ information?

Politicians.

The reason why insider trading is illegal is that it can undermine the ‘integrity’ of the market. We put ‘integrity’ in scare quotes, because the market is increasingly diminished from a perspective of principles — something which has only accelerated under Trump:

Trump is literally using the entire American economy for insider trading crypto scams lmfao

If he pulls back on tariffs again this will have been what? Three times he cratered the market and then didn’t implement the promised tariffs? https://t.co/LZE6fx6c3G

— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) October 12, 2025

Growingly, there’s also no structural integrity to the market either:

This is “The Everything Bubble” – The Largest Financial Bubble in History.

Built by Central Banks who thought they could micro-manage the Economy with endless monetary stimulus.

Instead, they created a gigantic Financial Bubble in all markets (stocks, housing, crypto) – with… pic.twitter.com/sK51iHcBFP

— Henrik Zeberg (@HenrikZeberg) October 29, 2025

Insider trading is much worse when it involves politicians, because they’re in a position to make decisions which could financially benefit themselves. According to Benzinga:

Nancy Pelosi’s stock tracker took the financial world by storm in 2024, delivering a jaw-dropping 54% gain and outshining nearly every hedge fund…

While the result seems almost mythical, it shows the growing fascination with lawmakers’ trading disclosures and the investment strategies built around them.

If Pelosi is not in fact an insider trader, she’s simply so good at it that she can beat professionals despite working full-time in a notably stressful field of work.

Impressive, if so.

Benzinga added:

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives’ impressive results are highly controversial and we only know about them because of the information made public through the STOCK Act, passed in 2012. This law requires members of Congress to share details about any stock trades worth over $1,000 within 30 to 45 days. The goal of the law was to stop insider trading and make things more transparent. And while that hasn’t exactly happened, the disclosures have inspired investors to copy lawmakers’ trades.

According to Quiver Quantitative, this is Pelosi’s record over the past few years:

“Ridiculous”

In the video at the top, host Jake Tapper raised the accusations of insider trading with Pelosi herself. While these specific allegations came from Trump, the president is far from the first person to have accused her. In response, Pelosi said:

That‘s ridiculous

She added:

In fact, I very much support the [efforts to] stop the trading of members of Congress.

Not that I think anybody is doing anything wrong. If they are, they are prosecuted, and they go to jail. But because of the confidence it instills in the American people, don‘t worry about this.

Much like the election of Zohran Mamdani, the interview was a sign that establishment Democrats can’t get away with ‘business as usual’ politics anymore. More and more, they’re being questioned on things which used to fly under the radar, and they’re clearly not enjoying it.

One account marking Pelosi’s retirement is ‘Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker’:

Breaking🚨

Nancy Pelosi set to retire by 2027

The queen of stock trading is officially hanging it up pic.twitter.com/r5iJZK2qXM

— Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ (@pelositracker) November 6, 2025

The account highlights:

Politicians’ trades so we can invest alongside them. Goal: get them banned from trading.

There is actually a push on this front, with NPR writing in September that a bipartisan group of politicians has unveiled new legislation to ban lawmakers trading individual stocks. Representative Chip Roy said:

They do not send us here to enrich ourselves while we are voting on the issues they send us here to fix and address and then have members who are trading stocks on the very issues they’re supposed to be voting on

The piece additionally notes that the legislation would force lawmakers to sell stocks within 180 days.

Over and out

Some might look at the insider trading legislation and suggest Pelosi is going now because the gravy train is drying up. To be fair, though, she is an 85-year-old woman; no doubt she’s ready to put her feet up and spend more time making improbably prescient stock predictions.

Featured image via Nancy Pelosi (Wikimedia)