Billionaire Ken Griffin has a clear message for Trump: Don't mess with the Fed's independence

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"Right here? Right now? The election is tomorrow? He wins it," Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin said of former President Donald Trump's bid for the White House.

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How the biggest hedge funds performed in August, including Citadel, Millennium, and Balyasny

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Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin speaking at the Semafor World Economy Summit in Washington, DC.
"Do we use it in our investment business? A little bit, a little bit, I can't say it's been game changing," Citadel founder Ken Griffin said of AI.

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Ken Griffin owns NYC's priciest condo. Mamdani wants to hike his property taxes — and others'.

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220 Central Park West

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2024 hedge-fund returns: Schonfeld, D.E. Shaw, and Walleye among the year's big winners

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Ryan Tolkin is the CEO and chief investment officer of Schonfeld Strategic Advisors.

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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is lending his 'epic' $44.6 million Stegosaurus fossil to the American Museum of Natural History

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Billionaire Ken Griffin's stegosaurus fossil on display at the American Museum of Natural History on December 5, 2024.
Ken Griffin's stegosaurus fossil at the American Museum of Natural History on December 5, 2024.

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Here's what some of the world's most powerful people have to say about Elon Musk

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CEOs and politicians weighed in on Elon Musk's role as a political advisor to president-elect Donald Trump.

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Citadel founder Ken Griffin says it's 'preposterous' for Elon Musk to shoulder the 'entire burden' of cutting the budget

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Ken C. Griffin speaks during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2024 at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Billionaire Citadel founder Ken Griffin was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit.

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Balyasny leads the way for multistrategy managers in a roller-coaster November. Here's how firms like Citadel, Millennium, and more performed.

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Dmitry Balyasny speaks at the 2018 Milken Conference in Beverly Hills, California.

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Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman was a trade negotiator for Donald Trump's first term. Here's what it took to get the president to a deal.

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From L: Donald Trump, Steve Schwarzman, and Chris Liddell

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Citadel founder Ken Griffin said he would be 'open' to selling a stake in his $65 billion hedge fund

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Ken Griffin is willing to sell a part of his $65 billion hedge fund for the first time.

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