Chris Josephs
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1,553 appearances
9 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Chris Josephs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All that stuff came out after that, like, oh, while the housing market is crashing and Americans are losing their homes left and right, these politicians are moving millions, reconstructing their portfolios after getting out of the meetings with the Fed officials. So that's how it came back onto the center stage.
The Stock Act then gets introduced in 2012, and then it gets passed shortly after that. What is crazy in my head, though, is, like, what the heck was going on before it? Yeah. Like, what do... That, I think, was we were talking off camera, like, our generation, we grow up with it and we're used to it now because of things like that. It's like, how can they have not had any limitations before 2012?
What were they doing?
That was me. With the Pelosi tracker every day in the early days. I remember a couple of these trades and there's so many now, but I remember calling my dad up and I'm like, wait a second. Like, is this actually like, are they actually trading? It's not just Mike McCall. I can't remember the specific trades. I think it was him, but.
Yeah. Yeah. He I'm trying to remember the trades because he he sits on the he sits on a lot of the intelligence committees or not a lot of the big committees. And he's trading millions. But it's not just like McCall. Yeah, I think so. I think so. He's in particular because he's really hard to track. We know this in the world of the us quiver quant usual whales. We're the ones that do this.
He manually fills out the filings by hand. So his trades don't get picked up by the majority of a, I'm 99% sure I can confirm that, but yeah, he, and his trades, I think are weird because it's him. Uh, it's the, the dependent and the, the spouse, the trades, they come in kind of as the same. So there's an argument that maybe Mike McCall's trades are, uh, from a, from a financial advisor, but,
if he can tell us, you know, we tag him on Twitter. It's like, you guys can just tell us what's going on.
I mean, you go a little bit north to Oklahoma, and Mark Wayne Mullen's an interesting one, too. What do you mean? I don't know too much about his... He's a fiery guy, too. Yeah, he was threatening to beat somebody up. Sean O'Brien. The Teamsters president. Yeah. Yeah, during that. Yeah, we built a whole thing. I like Sean O'Brien for the record.
Good guy. I don't... So that's what's... The thing that's interesting about me, again, from my background, is I don't know anything about these policies. I'm not a political person. We call out the politicians, the Democrats. The New York Times came out with a report in 2022 that said that 180 politicians traded over 3,700 times that totaled over $110, $115 million of volume from 2019 to 2021.
Out of those, it was literally pretty much half Democrats, half Republicans. So they're all doing it. Of course. Out of those 180 politicians, though, 90 of them sat on committees that directly oversaw companies that they traded. And you're like, okay, well, so that sounds like a conflict of interest.
And then that's what sparked me to get really into this and being like, what actually are the trades that are going on? Are they outperforming? Why are these random companies being bought? And Mike McCullough in particular, he...
checks this kind of box a lot he for example bought this stock in a company called badger meters earlier this year badger meters does a water meter solutions don't know much about it it's just freaking water meters two billion three billion dollar company turns out that the epa a couple months to his to be fair before he bought signed a mandate saying that all these water systems have to upgrade their technology beneficial for badger meters stock goes up
You then do some further digging, and then you realize that Tulsa, Oklahoma passed a $94 million bill to upgrade their own water meter systems right around the time that Mark Wayne Mullen bought Badger Meters. Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma is the state that Mark Wayne Mullen represents. He's the senator of it. So then you're like, EPA passes thing, passes the requirement to upgrade the water systems.
Senator buys stock. Senator's home state gives $100 million to upgrade water meter systems. Pro for Badger Meters, stock is up 50%. I think he's up like 48% on that.
This is just Mark Wayne Mullen. Yeah. And that's no other politicians are buying. I've never heard of Badger Meters. I don't know anything about the company. But when you when you start just connecting all the dots, there's just too many hip like controversial eyebrow raising like, oh, wait. The state that you represent just put $100 million to upgrade their water systems.
Oh, wait, you just bought the company that specializes in upgrading water systems. Oh, wait, now the stock has been crushing on earnings and you're still loaning it. It's up 40%. He sold it earlier this year. He held it for probably, I think, like eight months. But I think he made like 50%, 40% to 50% on that stock. And again... This isn't an Apple. You know, this isn't a Google.
This isn't an Nvidia. This is a water company. That's the type of stuff that we see.
No, no. Funny enough, we have an inverse Cramer portfolio. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So how does Kramer do relative to, say, Mike McCall? Inverse Kramer, he beats them. So inverse Kramer was up 48% in 2024. Wait, inverse Kramer? Oh, yeah, yeah. We have a portfolio that does the opposite of what he does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm telling you, we're a group of... You know, we're 15 now out in Irvine, California, just fucking around with some of these things.
And we're registered with the SEC.
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