Trump Is Meddling With the Fed. Why Don’t Markets Care?

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The Buried $150B Bet Inside the Top 20 U.S. Stocks

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How This $150B+ Wall Street Strategy Could Lower Your Taxes

In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, co-hosts Miriam Gottfried and Telis Demos are joined by Brent Sullivan, founder of Tax Alpha Insider, to dive into a hot, over $150 billion investing strategy called “tax-aware long-short.” This strategy aims to help wealthy inves ...  Show more

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