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Since 2010, TD Ameritrade offered commission-free trades on a list of 101 ETFs. Because those ETFs were selected by Morningstar, they had a level of objectivity. The list included over 30 ETFs from...
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Earlier this year, ProPublica did an exposé of how the ultra-rich pay relatively little income tax. One of their techniques is that they live on borrowed money. They don’t realize capital gains when...
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