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Gagliardi: 2022-2023 Fed rate hikes were most aggressive since 1982
“You'd have to go back to 1982 to find a Fed moving this hard, this fast, hard line, no exception, and just hawkish all the way.”
Gagliardi: Bottom 100 S&P 500 Names Make Up Only 3-4% of Index
“The bottom hundred is about three or four percent, so if a name from the bottom hundred goes bankrupt, as we did see with Silicon Valley Bank or First Republic Bank, they were one 100th of a percent of the portfolio.”
Gagliardi: Inherited assets receive step-up basis, eliminating capital gains if sold immediately
“If you die, your descendants, or whoever you're donating your money to, they'll inherit your assets... It's tax-free because they can get the cost basis on the day of your death. So essentially, if they sell on that same day, it's a tax-free capital gain, and …”