Palantir, the Market’s Most Valuable Military Contractor, Doesn’t Make Bombs or Guns

Palantir is a software company, and its national security work has driven its stock price to remarkable heights.

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The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway.

Like many on Wall Street, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used a limited partnership to avoid Medicare taxes. Unlike the others, he’s now overseeing the I.R.S.

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Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

The United States finalized a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina that will benefit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s allies.

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Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff ‘Stupidity’

Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.

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Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge

The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.

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E.U. Hatches a Plan to Lure Investors Back to Europe

Each year, Europeans invest roughly $325 billion in companies and financial assets outside the region. Officials in Brussels say they have a plan to end that “capital flight.”

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Goldman Sachs Ditches Big Diversity Rule As Wall Street Backs off DEI

Goldman Sachs will drop a demand that corporate boards of directors include women and members of minority groups as financial firms backpedal from D.E.I. promises.

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Wall Street Prepares to Defend Carried Interest, a Favored Tax Break, Again

President Trump called for ending the so-called carried interest loophole, which saves financiers billions. It’s a tax break that has survived time after time.

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