# President Obama Signs the STOCK Act

The STOCK Act makes it clear that if members of Congress use nonpublic information to gain an unfair advantage in the market, then they are breaking the law, and creates new disclosure requirements and new measures of accountability and transparency for thousands of federal employees. April 4, 2012.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: The White House
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Obama_Signs_the_STOCK_Act.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: The White House
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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