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The President’s $700 Million Algorithmic Trading Machine

This episode investigates the unprecedented flurry of thousands of stock trades executed by President Trump's investment accounts during his second term. It examines the automated "direct indexing" strategy behind these transactions and the intense ethical debate surrounding potential insider trading.

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