securities
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Clayton, who is also a former securities regulator and federal prosecutor, succeeds Tulsi Gabbard, who left her job last month and was replaced temporarily by Pulte.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The former securities regulator and federal prosecutor succeeds Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month, and inherits an 18-agency intelligence community shaken by leadership turnover and staff cuts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
By selling inside his retirement account, he avoided a federal capital-gains tax of as much as 20% of his profits, saving himself around $9 million in federal taxes that he could reinvest in other securities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Jamie Dimon — long considered a potential candidate to be treasury secretary, and the person in charge of one of the nation’s primary dealers of Treasury securities — says he wouldn’t buy American debt.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I’m twenty-six years old,” he says, “and I haven’t really understood what mortgage-backed securities really are.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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