Amol Sharma

The Frenzied Pursuit of Wall Street’s Low-Profile All-Stars The world’s most elite hedge funds are in a pitched battle for talent. The price tag for a young stock picker can now top $100 million.

Elite hedge funds are in a pitched battle for the world’s top traders. The price tag for a young stock picker can now top $100 million. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Bitcoin Goes All In on MAGA, Shedding Its Antigovernment Slant Despite wins under President Trump, some crypto factions are wary of politicizing the industry.

Despite wins under Trump, the crypto world is wary of becoming too politicized. Bitcoin’s biggest gathering is becoming “a right-wing rally,” said one attendee. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

WSJ: “.. Nearly $1 in every $7 the U.S. spends goes toward paying interest, more than the country spends on defense.”

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Wall Street’s New ‘Shadow Banks’ Are on a Tear. They Want Your Money. A booming ‘private credit’ industry aims to include 401(k) investors; tariff-driven economic stress poses risks.

The parallel banking world known as “private credit” is booming. Giants like Apollo and Blackstone have harnessed huge pools of insurance money to fuel their lending and now they want to tap into your 401(k) savings. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Exclusive | Goldman Sachs Offers Advice on Tariffs to Countries Scrambling to Please Trump South Africa, Japan and Saudi Arabia are among the nations that have sought counsel from the Wall Street giant.

Goldman Sachs tells countries that tariff negotiations aren’t all about trade. The bank advised South Africa’s president to scale back a law meant to address racial disparities because Trump had described it as a human rights violation. www.wsj.com/finance/gold...

As Markets Swooned, Pros Sold—and Individuals Pounced Hedge funds have sold a net $1 trillion of shares this year, while 97% of Vanguard 401(k) investors didn’t make trades in early April.

During this month’s market turmoil, professional investors headed for the exits while individuals held steady. It’s upending Wall Street’s conventional wisdom. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Exclusive | The Morgan Stanley Star Now Leading Trump’s Invest-in-America Push Michael Grimes will helm a new initiative brokering investments for ‘America First’ agenda

“He isn’t slick…he’s charming in a dorky way.” The Morgan Stanley star who is now the White House’s “America First” dealmaker. www.wsj.com/finance/mich...

Breakdown in U.S.-China Relations Raises Specter of New Cold War What is at stake as economic ties careen off the rails is overall global security and economic stability for years to come.

“According to people who consult with Chinese officials, Beijing’s recent statement that it is done with tit-for-tat tariff responses signals that it might be moving to other, noneconomic methods.” www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Wall Street’s Best Hope to End Trump’s Global Trade War Is One of Its Own Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a former hedge-fund manager, is trying to execute one of highest-stakes gambles in modern political and economic history.

How Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a Wall Street veteran, embraced MAGA’s pro-tariff populism and made one of the highest-stakes gambles in modern political and economic history.
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Big Bank CEOs Reckon With Their Lack of Influence on Trump Bankers are uncertain about Trump’s endgame on tariffs and uneasy about the impact on the global economy and their own businesses.

As tariffs roil markets, Wall Street’s elite bank CEOs aren’t in contact with the White House to the extent they have been during past disruptions — and when they are, they sense their opinions don’t carry weight. www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

How BlackRock’s Larry Fink Won Over Donald Trump CEOs the world over are trying to get in good with President Trump. This Wall Street titan found a way.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink was a Republican punching bag derided as a woke capitalist. Then he delivered Trump a big geopolitical win. WSJ goes deep on a finance titan who always stays close to power. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Exclusive | The Trump Family Advances Its All-Out Crypto Blitz, This Time With Bitcoin Mining A business led by two of the president’s sons will invest in American Bitcoin, a new mining company controlled by Hut 8.

Exclusive: The Trump family has struck a deal to get into bitcoin mining, part of its all-out push into every corner of crypto. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

In Crypto’s Darkest Corner, a Suicide Becomes Just Another Meme Coin A 23-year-old man’s dark descent into crypto scams ended with shooting himself on a livestream.

The aftermath of Arnold Haro’s death illustrates, in the extreme, the lack of boundaries in the meme coin world: It is a place where anything can be turned into a coin—even a horrific tragedy. @KevinTDugan on crypto’s darkest corner. www.wsj.com/finance/arno...

Inside the Law Firm That Decided to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attack The firm’s biggest clients—including Amazon and Boeing—are staying despite an executive order that targeted the firm, which has Democratic ties.

“To the surprise of staff, after Trump’s order, a big bouquet of flowers arrived at the firm’s headquarters in Seattle. The anonymous gift had a note signed by the “American people” that read: “Thank you for everything you do.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This 4-Bedroom Ranch in N.J. Tells You Everything About the Lopsided Housing Market For the past few years, nearly every market was hot and there were few deals to be found. Now, many of the markets that rose the fastest are the ones cooling the most. If that weakness spreads more br...

Selling a home right now is a vastly different experience for people depending on where you live in the U.S. ⁦‪@VeronicaDagher‬⁩ on how and why regional disparities are so pronounced in the housing market. www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Um, this sounds like the plot of a Seth Rogen movie:
The Atlantic's editor was copied into a Signal group chat in which top Trump officials were discussing an impending military attack. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Law Firms Scramble to Avoid Being Trump’s Next Target The president’s latest salvo calls for a harder line with firms litigating against the government in ways he thinks are unfair.

“It was very likely that our firm would not be able to survive a protracted dispute with the Administration.” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Why don’t board games with cards include rubber bands to store the cards neatly? Discuss.

Here's the full email. Feinman's term ended and he was not reappointed. The Commerce Dept. is still weighing how it will change BEAD, but its stated preference for a low-cost, "tech neutral" use of funds could mean billions more for satellite operators like Starlink.

The Days of Set-and-Forget Investing Just Ended for Many Americans The Trump administration’s chaotic mix of tariffs and government budget cuts has jolted legions of everyday investors, leading them to question the assumption that they should buy and hold stocks on a...

The Trump administration’s chaotic mix of tariffs and government budget cuts has jolted everyday investors, leading them to question the assumption that they should buy and hold stocks on autopilot. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Trump’s New World Order Tests the Dollar Investors are more optimistic about Europe while tariffs cloud the U.S. outlook.

One potential victim of Trump’s upending of the geopolitical order in a matter of weeks: the U.S. dollar. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

The Week the Smart Money Got Whipsawed by the Market Hedge funds usually like to take advantage of stock-market unrest. Lately, they have helped spread it instead.

Hedge funds usually like to take advantage of stock-market unrest. Lately, they have helped spread it instead. A great read on the hit some of Wall Street’s most sophisticated investors took in last week’s rout. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Stand Down, Youngs. Old People Are Taking Over TV 'A Man on the Inside,' 'Hacks,' and 'Matlock' are putting older stars like Ted Danson, Kathy Bates, Jean Smart, and more, back in the spotlight

I wrote about how we've improbably entered a new golden age of TV shows about characters in their golden years, including A Man on the Inside, Hacks, Only Murders in the Building, and Matlock:

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Long the Star Pupils, Girls Are Losing Ground to Boys Girls have suffered greater test-score declines than boys.

Girls Are Losing Ground to Boys Now at School, Test Scores Show www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

How Chinese Hackers Graduated From Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons Massive “Typhoon” cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecoms sought to lay the groundwork for potential conflict with Beijing, as intruders gathered data and got in position to impede response a...

Inside the massive ‘Typhoon’ cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecom networks, which have underscored America’s shocking vulnerabilities to digital intrusions by Chinese hackers. Incredible reporting from a star-studded WSJ team. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

James Bond Outdueled Goldfinger and Dr. No. Can He Win a Battle With Amazon? A clash between the Broccoli family, which has creative control over 007, and the e-commerce giant, which owns the franchise, has put Bond’s future on pause.

Shaken and stirred: James Bond is stuck in a tug-of-war between the family that controls 007 and his new overlords at Amazon. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Sorry, Mad Men. The Ad Revolution Is Here. Two advertisers are combining into a $30 billion behemoth to harness the data, tech and AI expertise now dominating Madison Avenue—and all the marketing you see.

The $30 billion mega merger between two advertising giants marks a turning point for Madison Avenue: the creative side of the business, long the power center, is giving way to a future dominated by quants and AI. Behold the rise of the Math Men. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since Stalin. era.

EVAN GERSHKOVICH IS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS — on the byline of a WSJ article.

So great to see Evan publishing stories again.

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