Jim Cramer said that the market is rigged and most of us would agree. Our famous celebrities go to jail for insider trading, yet Congress gets by with it. What stocks are members of Congress investing In? The results are in!
Most Popular Congressional Investments, 2012
1 General Electric
2 Procter & Gamble
3 Microsoft Corp
4 Wells Fargo
5 Apple Inc
6 Bank of America
7 JPMorgan Chase & Co
8 Exxon Mobil
9 Cisco Systems
10 Intel Corp
11 AT&T Inc
11 Johnson & Johnson
13 IBM Corp
14 Pfizer Inc
15 PepsiCo Inc
15 Coca-Cola Co
17 Chevron Corp
18 Verizon Communications
19 McDonald’s Corp
20 Walt Disney Co
21 Qualcomm Inc
22 SPDR Gold Trust ETF
23 Merck & Co
24 Berkshire Hathaway
24 3M Co
26 Wal-Mart Stores
27 Abbott Laboratories
27 Home Depot
27 Google Inc
27 Comcast Corp
31 Bristol-Myers Squibb
31 United Technologies
31 Oracle Corp 28
34 Vodafone Group
34 Schlumberger Ltd
34 Citigroup Inc
37 EMC Corp
38 American Express
38 Union Pacific Corp
40 Philip Morris Int
40 Mondelez International
40 Kimberly-Clark Corp
40 Kraft Foods Group
44 Altria Group
44 ConocoPhillips
46 Express Scripts
46 Hewlett-Packard
48 Ford Motor Co
48 DuPont Co
48 Amazon.com
To learn more, go to Center for Responsive Politics.
* Another interesting list is the Top 100 Contractors of the U.S. federal government.