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Throw Them All Out

Book by Peter Schweizer, published in 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, on how members of Congress and others profit from their positions.

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  1. 2011 Throw Them All Out
  2. 2011 Peter Schweizer authored Throw Them All Out
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  1. Congress: Trading stock on inside information? (script of “Insiders”, 60 Minutes), CBS News, 13 Nov 2011. Scholarship & press
    It became a jumping off point for our own story, and we have independently verified the material we've used.
    A year ago he began working on a book about soft corruption in Washington with a team of eight student researchers, who reviewed financial disclosure records.
  2. Capitol Losses: The Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios, 2004-2008 (working paper, December 2011), Authors’ working paper, hosted at MIT, 2 Dec 2011. Scholarship & press
    A recently-published and widely-discussed book (Schweizer; 2011) recounts dozens of examples of members of Congress making profitable stock trades while in possession of non-public information about policies affecting companies in their portfolios.
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