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Bill Alpert

@blalpert

Bill Alpert is a Senior Writer at Barron’s, where since 1984 he has published nerdy feature stories, columns and investigative projects of use to investors.

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Joined July 2009
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Private Credit Funds Started Throttling Redemptions. Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Has Done It for Years. - Barron's barrons.com/articles/skybrid…
Private Credit Funds Started Throttling Redemptions. Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Has Done It for Years.

Private Credit Funds Started Throttling Redemptions. Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Has Done It for Years.

SkyBridge Capital has been able to satisfy only a fraction of redemption requests as investors mobbed the exits in the last few years.

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Enforcement Cases by Trump’s SEC Dropped to a Record Low barrons.com/articles/enforce…
Enforcement Cases by Trump’s SEC Dropped to a Record Low

Enforcement Cases by Trump’s SEC Dropped to a Record Low

Over 93% of SEC cases filed against public companies in the agency’s fiscal year had been initiated under the prior administration, concludes a study.

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Small-Cap Problems Dim a Bright Year for Nasdaq IPOs barrons.com/articles/nasdaq-… via @BarronsOnline
How Nasdaq IPO Success Was Blighted by a Swarm of Tiny Offerings

How Nasdaq IPO Success Was Blighted by a Swarm of Tiny Offerings

Small-cap listings will face tougher scrutiny and new rules from regulators and exchanges amid growing concerns from investors and the media.

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Why is the CFTC AWOL ? Sports Event Contracts Are Replacing Bets. Trump’s Regulator Is Standing Aside. barrons.com/articles/predict…

Sports Event Contracts Are Replacing Bets. Trump’s Regulator Is Standing Aside.

The top regulator is staying silent on key questions as sports events contracts displace online booksmakers.

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As Proof Tylenol Causes Autism, Paxton cites an herbal medicine journal Tylenol Is Tied to Autism, Texas Claims in Suit. Kenvue Stock Shudders. barrons.com/articles/tylenol… via @BarronsOnline
Tylenol Is Tied to Autism, Texas Claims in Suit. Kenvue Stock Shudders.

Tylenol Is Tied to Autism, Texas Claims in Suit. Kenvue Stock Shudders.

Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, said it would defend itself against “these baseless claims” in the suit filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton.

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Roche Sets Gene-Sequencing Record. It’s a Challenge for Illumina. barrons.com/articles/roche-g… via @BarronsOnline
Roche Sets Gene-Sequencing Record. It’s a Challenge for Illumina.

Roche Sets Gene-Sequencing Record. It’s a Challenge for Illumina.

The Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab used Roche equipment to read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an hour off the previous Guinness World Record.

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Splits and selloffs shrank $BINI to a quadrillionth of its 2022 value After Splitting 9 Times to Stay on Nasdaq, Bollinger Innovations Delists barrons.com/articles/bolling… via @BarronsOnline
After Reverse-Splitting 9 Times to Stay on Nasdaq, Bollinger Innovations Delists

After Reverse-Splitting 9 Times to Stay on Nasdaq, Bollinger Innovations Delists

The aspiring electric-vehicle company Bollinger Innovations said it would move to a tier of the OTC Markets on Monday.

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How AI Spending Circles Around $NVDA, $MSFT, $ORCL Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI Have Investors Going in Circles. This Chart Shows How. barrons.com/articles/nvidia-… via @BarronsOnline
Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI: This Chart Captures AI’s ‘Circular Financing.’

Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI: This Chart Captures AI’s ‘Circular Financing.’

Since Nvidia agreed last month to invest $100 billion in its customer OpenAI, investors and analysts who follow artificial intelligence have awakened to that industry’s circularity.

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He Helped Pioneer Short Activism. Now He’s Betting Against AI. barrons.com/articles/ai-shor… via @BarronsOnline
He Helped Pioneer Short Activism. Now He’s Waiting for the Next Bubble to Pop.

He Helped Pioneer Short Activism. Now He’s Waiting for the Next Bubble to Pop.

Muddy Waters CEO Carson Block has been forced to change his tactics in an ebullient market that stymies short sellers.

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Ares’ and Blackstone’s plans for your money After a Trump Order, Private-Markets Managers Blackstone and Ares Get Set to Woo Small Investors barrons.com/articles/trump-o… via @BarronsOnline
After a Trump Order, Private-Markets Managers Blackstone and Ares Get Set to Woo Small Investors

After a Trump Order, Private-Markets Managers Blackstone and Ares Get Set to Woo Small Investors

President Trump has pushed to allow individuals to invest in private markets. Blackstone and Ares Management are readying for the chase.

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$GH enters the multicancer screening market next month……………………………..Guardant’s New Blood Test Can Detect Many Different Cancers. The Company Is Promising the Same for Other Diseases. - Barron's barrons.com/articles/guardan…
Guardant’s New Blood Test Can Detect Many Different Cancers. The Company Is Promising the Same for...

Guardant’s New Blood Test Can Detect Many Different Cancers. The Company Is Promising the Same for...

Guardant’s screen could see annual sales of $50 billion. The company hopes to use the technology to detect hundreds of other diseases.

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Doing something rotten to the State of Denmark ……………Three Americans Owe $160 Million to Denmark in Dividend Tax Scheme, Says Judge barrons.com/articles/three-a… via @BarronsOnline
Three Americans Owe $160 Million to Denmark in Dividend Tax Scheme, Says Judge

Three Americans Owe $160 Million to Denmark in Dividend Tax Scheme, Says Judge

A cottage industry of lawyers, bankers, and accountants defrauded governments of at least $164 billion in the past few decades, tax authorities estimate.

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Was that Sim Farm such a threat? Sim Farm Found by Secret Service Might Have Scammed Citizens. It Was Unlikely to Cause a Cellular Blackout. barrons.com/articles/sim-far… via @BarronsOnline
Sim Farm Found by Secret Service Might Have Scammed Citizens. It Was Unlikely to Cause a Cellular...

Sim Farm Found by Secret Service Might Have Scammed Citizens. It Was Unlikely to Cause a Cellular...

On the morning before President Donald Trump’s U.N. speech, the Secret Service said it found more than 300 illegal telecom devices spread around the New York area.

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Split personality……………It’s a Ninth Reverse Stock Split For This Serial Splitter barrons.com/articles/bolling…
Bollinger Will Do a Reverse Stock Split, Its Ninth Since 2022

Bollinger Will Do a Reverse Stock Split, Its Ninth Since 2022

Bollinger will exchange one share for 250 shares of its stock on Sept. 22.

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An options trading debate ……………………………SEC Eyes New Exchange That Could Upend the Options Market barrons.com/articles/sec-exc…
SEC Eyes New Exchange That Could Upend the Options Market

SEC Eyes New Exchange That Could Upend the Options Market

Proponents say the new exchange could protect institutional traders from being outraced by deep-pocketed, computerized rivals.

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Who needs quarterly earnings reports ? SEC Prioritizes Trump’s Plan to Scrap Quarterly Earnings Reports. Why It’s Bad for Investors. barrons.com/articles/trump-s… via @BarronsOnline
Trump Wants to Scrap Quarterly Earnings Reports. SEC Prioritizes the Plan.

Trump Wants to Scrap Quarterly Earnings Reports. SEC Prioritizes the Plan.

President Donald Trump says moving to semiannual reporting will ‘save money.’ It would also hurt investors.

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Listed penny stocks cause problems for everyone except those associated with the companies. Reverse stock splits mark some of the most problematic ones... These Companies Gain Through Reverse Stock Splits. Shareholders Often Lose Out. barrons.com/articles/reverse… via @BarronsOnline
These Companies Gain Through Reverse Stock Splits. Shareholders Often Lose Out.

These Companies Gain Through Reverse Stock Splits. Shareholders Often Lose Out.

Reverse stock splits let small companies dodge delisting, dilute shareholders, and enrich their financial backers through a maneuver that‘s the opposite of a traditional stock split.

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Prediction Markets, DeFi, and 24-hour Trades Market Regulators Team Up for 24-Hour Trading and Event Betting barrons.com/articles/sec-cft… via @BarronsOnline
Market Regulators Team Up for 24-Hour Trading and Event Betting

Market Regulators Team Up for 24-Hour Trading and Event Betting

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission want to harmonize their rules to promote new initiatives.

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The lawsuit that Musk can't shake: SEC Says Its Case Against Musk Is Beyond Dispute barrons.com/articles/sec-say… via @BarronsOnline
SEC Says Its Case Against Musk Is Beyond Dispute

SEC Says Its Case Against Musk Is Beyond Dispute

The agency alleges that Elon Musk filed stock ownership notices late when he began amassing a stake in Twitter.

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