An AI Tool Called GovGreed Claims 56% of Congressional Stock Trades Beat the Market — and It Has Receipts
A new AI analysis tool has scraped and analyzed the financial disclosures of 540 members of Congress, claiming to show that the majority of their stock purchases outperform benchmarks in ways that suggest privileged information.
A tool called GovGreed has gone viral after publishing an AI-driven analysis of congressional stock trading, claiming that 56% of stock purchases made by sitting members of Congress outperform the broader market, as @Ric_RTP reported in a detailed breakdown that drew massive engagement. The tool scraped publicly available financial disclosure filings for 540 current and recent politicians, cross-referenced trade dates with committee assignments and legislative calendars, and applied statistical models to identify anomalous returns.
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