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The Higher Standard — 215 episodes

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Japan Just Exposed America’s Mortgage Problem And It Can't Be Stopped

2

The Truth About Situational Awareness: Ken Griffin, Citadel & the AI Bubble

3

How AI Will Be The Catalyst For A Recession

4

Saied’s Final Episode: The End of an Era, CPI Shock & the Fed’s AI Gamble

5

Kevin Warsh’s AI Inflation Fantasy: Is the Fed Rewriting the Rules?

6

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Exposes the AI Scam Corporate America Is Falling For

7

The Housing Affordability Crisis Just Became Political Theater

8

Buy, Borrow, Die... How America's Tax Code Built a New Aristocracy

9

The 1970s Inflation Pattern Is Repeating... And Nobody Wants to Say It

10

Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO, Fed Rate Hikes, Bitcoin Crash & Gold Replacing Treasuries

11

SpaceX IPO Exposed: Elon’s $28.5 Trillion AI Moonshot or Greatest Rug Pull in History?

12

Zuckerberg Just Said That At Meta, Your Job Is Training Its Replacement

13

AI Just Changed How Everything Gets Valued

14

AI May Have Just Broke the Tax System

15

Jerome Powell’s Last FOMC: Inflation, Recession Pain & the Fed’s Big Lie

16

The Fed, AI & Crypto Are Creating the Next Financial Crisis

17

Stagflation, Social Media & the Collapse of Common Sense

18

Markets Melt Up, The Fed Melts Down: Geopolitical Conflict Ignites a Different War

19

Sheriff Chad Bianco | Sounding the Alarm on Crime, Taxes & Saving California

20

How You Could Make Tens of Millions With AI by Next Year

21

Fed Hike Next? Oil, Inflation and the Bond Market Warning

22

No Cut, No Exit: Private Credit, Frozen Housing & Powell Holding the Line

23

Everything Is Breaking At Once: Jobs, Housing, Private Credit, and the Fed's Dead End

24

Iran War: Oil Prices, Fed Shakeup, Jobs Report & Crypto Lives

25

You’re Probably Going to Lose Your Job. Get Valuable Now.

26

Inflation Down, Pain Still Up: The Real Cost-of-Living Crisis

27

The Jobs Report Is A LIE... And Retirees Are Taking The Jobs Back

28

AI Bubble Reality Check: $285B Rout, Layoffs Incoming, Housing Still Unaffordable

29

Tariff Time Bomb: How War, Inflation & the Fed Are Setting Up the Next Market Shock

30

Davos Talks, Bond Markets Decide & Jamie Dimon Gets Sassy

31

Markets Are Breaking While the Fed Is Under Attack

32

Markets Hit Records, Volatility Creeps In & Washington Picks New Fights

33

Everyone Thinks 2026 Stocks Only Go Up — That’s the Problem

34

The Year Money Changed: What 2025 Really Taught Us About Wealth

35

The Old Way of Getting Rich Is Dead (Here’s What Replaces It In 2026)

36

The Fed Cut Rates - So Why Are Mortgage Rates Rising and Layoffs Surging?

37

FOMC Countdown: Rate Cut Odds Explode, AI Privacy Nightmare & THS Live

38

The Melt-Up Economy EXPOSED: Fed’s Pivot, AI Jobs DESTROYED & A Recession

39

The Housing Market Is Getting DESTROYED, The Fed’s Fake Data & Nvidia’s Fall

40

Broken Data, Job Cuts & The Wealth Secrets the Rich Don’t Want You to Know

41

Housing Recession EXPOSED: Buffett, Zillow & Burry WARN What’s Coming 🚨

42

The Ridiculous Reality Behind the Fed’s Latest Rate Cut

43

The Brutally Honest Economic Red Flags Nobody’s Ready For

44

Exposing Fake Gurus: Brutally Honest Breakdown of Social Media Scammers

45

The Brutal Honest Truth About An AI Bubble: How Private Equity Will Destroy the Market

46

Why The Great Wealth Transfer is a LIE

47

Housing Market Reality Check: New Home Sales Hype & Buffett Indicator Warning

48

Fed Cuts Rates Markets Soar, Middle Class Squeezed & Side Hustles Surge

49

Jobs Shock, Stagflation Fears & Robinhood’s Big Bet

50

Markets Already Betting on Fed Cuts... Here’s What You Need to Know

51

Can Trump Fire Lisa Cook? Rate-Cut Pressure, Jackson Hole & Apple’s AI

52

Trump vs The Fed: Mortgage Fraud Scandal Could Shake Wall Street

53

The Fed’s $2 Trillion Secret: Reverse Repo Explained

54

School Failed You, Your Job Failed You & So Did Conventional Wisdom

55

Curtis Lorincz | Exposing the Guru Grift: One Man vs. The Cult of Bro Culture

56

How Corporate America Broke the Social Contract: Wages Down, Debt Up, Loyalty Dead

57

Jason Lu | From Taiwan to Streetwear Stardom: The Journey With Pleasures & Beyond

58

The Education Scam: Why You’re Not Rich (And Never Were Meant To Be)

59

Matt Moghaddam | The Reality of Social Media, Small Business & Big Dreams

60

The Fragile Mirage of Economic Recovery

61

Parsa Vahid | From Broke Engineer to Manages Hundreds of Millions

62

The Fed Held Rates, But Will War With Iran Trigger a Recession?

63

Farshad Dehbozorgi | Clubs, TikTok & How Millions of Views Turned Him In To a Lawyer

64

Dimon Drops Bombs, Powell Plays Defense, & Housing Still Hurts

65

Jeff Fargo | The Truth About Bought Followers, Bot Engagement & Podcast Fame

66

Credit Downgrade Chaos, Mortgage Madness & a Fijian

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Pejman Ghadimi | Exotic Car Hacks, Cash & Consciousness

68

Warren Buffett Retires, Powell Holds Rates, & GDP Turns Negative

69

A Bittersweet Farewell: Reflecting On Our Journey

70

Equity, Debt, & The Volatile Future of Home Ownership

71

Tariffs, Tumbling Tech & The Fed’s Tightrope

72

Tariff Chaos, Market Meltdowns & Why This Economy Feels So Broken

73

The Art of the Tariff: Trump Shakes the Global Trade Table

74

What Apple, Trump, & Your Second Job Say About the Economy

75

When Dollar General Sounds Like the Fed, You Know It’s Bad

76

Stocks, Rates & Jobs: The FOMC vs. The President

77

Understanding Tariffs: Impact on Consumer Prices & the Risk of Stagflation

78

Why Warren Buffett Is Sitting on $334 Billion in Cash (What You Should Know!)

79

The Housing Market, Remote Work Shakeups & Jamie Dimon’s Big Warning

80

Inflation Is Rising & Consumer Protections Are Vanishing - What It Means for You

81

The Psychology of Financial Decision-Making in Today's Economy

82

Unlocking The Future With Quantum Computing

83

Why Your 401k Isn’t Enough: The Real Path to Wealth

84

Artificial Intelligence: Boosting Innovation or Killing Careers?

85

Money Stress in America: Breaking Down Financial Anxiety

86

What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up

87

Your 2024 Economic Year in Review

88

The Fed's Latest Move: Why Markets Are About to Get Wild

89

Why Your First $100,000 Is The Hardest: Lessons From Financial Fails

90

2025 Housing Market Predictions You Can’t Ignore

91

Is The American Dream Officially Dead Now?

92

You Need To Know This About Your Job

93

Why Government Spending Is Soaring & How Elon Musk Plans to Fix It

94

Why You’re Paying More for Cars, Homes, & Everything In Between

95

Election Economics: How Inflation, GDP & The Fed Shape 2024’s Future

96

Markets vs. The Fed: Who’s Right About Inflation & Employment?

97

Housing Market Update: Prices Falling in 26 of 28 Major Cities

98

Kobe, Cash Flow, & Chasing Dreams: A Laid-Back Financial Chat

99

From Basic Budgeting to Port Strikes & Bananas

100

The Housing Market Has A BIG Problem

101

The Fed Cut Rates Half A Point, Now What

102

We Are Getting A Rate Cut This Week

103

Real Money Making Habits That Can Make You Millions

104

What You Need To Know About Rate Cuts & How to Make Millions

105

The BIG We Told You This Would Happen Episode

106

These Are The Influencers You Can't Trust

107

Emergency Economic Fireside Chat

108

How To Get Rich In This Economy

109

Financial Terms You Didn't Know You Needed To Know

110

Shocking Financial Statistics Of The Average Person & Looming Rate Cuts

111

Investing For Your Kids And Recession Red Flags

112

EBITDA Explained, Inflation Persists & Hawk Tuah

113

Mind Pump's Amazing Adam Schafer Returns

114

The Fed Admits They Were Wrong

115

GDP, CPI & All The Data You NEED to Know Explained

116

How Much Home Can You ACTUALLY Afford

117

The Get Dynasty Origin Story

118

Shelter Is Propping Up Inflation

119

A Conversation With Fridays Founders

120

The Most Important Lessons In Investing

121

How To Value Real Estate Like The Pros

122

How To Begin Investing In Real Estate

123

You Need To Do This Before You Build A Business

124

Before You Buy A Property, Recession Warning & The Perfect Wife

125

Four Paths To Millions, Lots Of Data & Kashkari Gets It

126

You Need A Trust, The Fed, Housing & Diddy

127

The Investment Strategy & Wild NAR Settlement

128

The #1 Wealth Killer & Why The Jobs Report Is Broken

129

How To Get A Perfect Credit Score, Inflation & Shelter

130

Hack A Massive Discount On A Mortgage & The Fed Ain't Playing

131

Economic Conspiracy, Trump Sneakers & AI Problems

132

Mountains Of Debt, Influencers Are Fake & Circle Of Trust

133

Jerome Powell Did Community Banks Dirty

134

A Big Week, FinTech Bubble 2.0 & A Bezos Mentorship

135

Your Best First Investments, Home Sales & Repos

136

The Last Thursday, Bostic Is A Hater & Cash Is Moving

137

The Truth About The Data & We Are Changing

138

Office Space, Crypto, CPI & A Strange Suit

139

Mounting Debt, Real Estate Agents & Drugs

140

We Have Not Avoided A Recession Yet

141

Cash Or Trash And $100 For That Ass

142

Happy New Year, Real Estate & Recession Red Flags

143

Nike Translated, Silent Depression & No Pigeons

144

Patrick Bet-David's Reverse Market Crash Exposed

145

Tumultuous Times Ahead, Haroon On PTO & Uncertainty

146

No One Knows What Happens Next & The Two Comma Club

147

Jordan Franks | From Football To Finance

148

Inflation Doesn't Solve All Problems & RIP Charlie Munger

149

The Current State of Housing & It's Not Our Fault

150

A Market Crash, Housing Impossible & Not So Open AI

151

Inflation Drops, NAR Gets Popped & Racks and Bibles

152

The Recession Saga And A Market Adjustment

153

JP Goes Hard, Nouriel Roubini Sells Out & Head Bobbing

154

Slowdown Signals Cooling Economy, SBF Will Die In Jail & 3 Amazing Reviews

155

The Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged, Stickier Inflation & Finally M&A

156

What All This Debt Could Mean For You

157

GDP, Economists, Consumption & Rates Cuts

158

Housing Affordability, Realtor Problems & Saied Is Grumpy

159

Recession Red Flags, Home Sales Slow & Treasuries Pop

160

Rents Dropping, Syndications Popping & Apple Juice

161

CPI & PPI Swing, A Housing Bubble & Fraud

162

What This Crazy Bond Market Means For You

163

Redfin v. NAR, Housing, Squatting & Sex Talk

164

Everything You Need to Know About The Fed

165

Meaningfully Higher, Global Economy, ARMs & Aloha

166

Listener Appreciation Q&A Episode

167

The Fed Holds, Housing Peaks & Saied Fisting

168

Fed Meeting, $100 Billion Loss & Saied is RFK, Jr.

169

Inflation, Income, Home Prices & A 3 Star Review

170

A HUGE Mistake, Goldilocks & Haroon Returns

171

Airbnb, Beige Book, Roku, WeWork & A Bromance

172

Oh Yeah!, Insurance Changes & Happiness

173

99 Problems, But Mitch Ain't One

174

Jerome Powell Makes Threats, Zillow Is Insane & Haroon Drinks Water

175

Rolling Recession, Mortgage Rates & Why Saied?

176

C&I Lending Is Shifting, Car Prices & How To Get Rich & Famous

177

Mortgage Rates, Fed Minutes & Janet Yellen Gets High

178

Larry Wheels | Adversity Builds Character

179

Student Loan Repayment, Creating Wealth & Affordability

180

Inflation Tamed, A Government Recession & Haroon Wears Salmon

181

This Is When The Recession Arrives

182

Austin Office, Luxury Homes & Dallas Aribnb

183

The Fed Raised Rates 25bps And The Boys Are Fed Up

184

Recession Odds Are A Joke & Saied Is Basically Drake

185

Cardone Gets A Spanking, Fed Now, Cry Later & Non-Recession, Recession

186

Home Price Regression, Two Economists and Two Road Trips

187

Inflation Breakdown and How to Interview for a Job

188

Interest Rates, Yield Curve, The Banks, Outies & Conspiracies

189

BS Jobs Report, Bankruptcies, and Haroon Ends The Show

190

The Special 4th of July Episode

191

GDP Revised, Trillians of M&A & Don't Be a Richard

192

San Francisco Needs Batman, Return To Office & Home Sales

193

Titanic Tragedy, Jerome Powell is Grilled & The Data Is Talking

194

Dr. Doom's Ridiculous Glasses, MJ v. Prince and Why Economists are Late

195

Jerome Powell is Skipping, Inflation and CEO to DJ

196

David Solomon, How To Use Credit Cards & Bonds For Dummies

197

The Truth About Home Prices, Brian's Bad Advisor & Adam Scores

198

It's Raining Jobs, Ramsey and CZ Have Problems and Let's be Sexy

199

A Record Plunge, Goldman goes from Bad to Worse and Landlord Problems

200

Recession is Here, Don't Tell The Fed & Don't 10X EVER

201

Savings You Need, The Fed is Confused and Private Equity Booming

202

Dissension Amongst the Fed Ranks and Chris Rants

203

RIP Sam Zell, Home Depot Falls Off and Remodels are Mid

204

Consumer Debt Hits New High, Burry Believes in Bank and JP Got Bars

205

Inflation Isn't What You Think, Tipping is Out of Control and Pot Calling the Kettle

206

The Recession is Looming, Jobs Report and Finance Slum Dog Millionaire

207

The Fed Kills Banks, the Aftermath and the Galactic Menagerie

208

The Big First Republic Episode

209

GDP Breakdown, Home Value Hype and FRC Wants a Handy

210

Credit Doesn't Matter, Sam Zell is Downgrading Work from Home and the Repo Man

211

Beige Book, Look at Earnings and Saied is the Villain

212

Janet Yellen is Sexy, Site Your Sources, Rent is Falling and Home Rap

213

It's Time to get Frank, Banks and Boing Boing

214

Dr. Doom's Boom, Strong Job Numbers and AI is Coming

215

Jim Cramer Says You're Good Unless you Work Here