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The Higher Standard — 202 episodes

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1

AI May Have Just Broke the Tax System

2

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

3

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

4

Stagflation, Social Media & the Collapse of Common Sense

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

Davos Talks, Bond Markets Decide & Jamie Dimon Gets Sassy

18

Markets Are Breaking While the Fed Is Under Attack

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

The Ridiculous Reality Behind the Fed’s Latest Rate Cut

30

The Brutally Honest Economic Red Flags Nobody’s Ready For

31

Exposing Fake Gurus: Brutally Honest Breakdown of Social Media Scammers

32

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

33

Why The Great Wealth Transfer is a LIE

34

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

35

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

36

Jobs Shock, Stagflation Fears & Robinhood’s Big Bet

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

The Fragile Mirage of Economic Recovery

48

Parsa Vahid | From Broke Engineer to Manages Hundreds of Millions

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

Credit Downgrade Chaos, Mortgage Madness & a Fijian

54

Pejman Ghadimi | Exotic Car Hacks, Cash & Consciousness

55

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

56

A Bittersweet Farewell: Reflecting On Our Journey

57

Equity, Debt, & The Volatile Future of Home Ownership

58

Tariffs, Tumbling Tech & The Fed’s Tightrope

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

Unlocking The Future With Quantum Computing

70

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

71

Artificial Intelligence: Boosting Innovation or Killing Careers?

72

Money Stress in America: Breaking Down Financial Anxiety

73

What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up

74

Your 2024 Economic Year in Review

75

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

76

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

77

2025 Housing Market Predictions You Can’t Ignore

78

Is The American Dream Officially Dead Now?

79

You Need To Know This About Your Job

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

From Basic Budgeting to Port Strikes & Bananas

87

The Housing Market Has A BIG Problem

88

The Fed Cut Rates Half A Point, Now What

89

We Are Getting A Rate Cut This Week

90

Real Money Making Habits That Can Make You Millions

91

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

92

The BIG We Told You This Would Happen Episode

93

These Are The Influencers You Can't Trust

94

Emergency Economic Fireside Chat

95

How To Get Rich In This Economy

96

Financial Terms You Didn't Know You Needed To Know

97

Shocking Financial Statistics Of The Average Person & Looming Rate Cuts

98

Investing For Your Kids And Recession Red Flags

99

EBITDA Explained, Inflation Persists & Hawk Tuah

100

Mind Pump's Amazing Adam Schafer Returns

101

The Fed Admits They Were Wrong

102

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

103

How Much Home Can You ACTUALLY Afford

104

The Get Dynasty Origin Story

105

Shelter Is Propping Up Inflation

106

A Conversation With Fridays Founders

107

The Most Important Lessons In Investing

108

How To Value Real Estate Like The Pros

109

How To Begin Investing In Real Estate

110

You Need To Do This Before You Build A Business

111

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

112

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

113

You Need A Trust, The Fed, Housing & Diddy

114

The Investment Strategy & Wild NAR Settlement

115

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

116

How To Get A Perfect Credit Score, Inflation & Shelter

117

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

118

Economic Conspiracy, Trump Sneakers & AI Problems

119

Mountains Of Debt, Influencers Are Fake & Circle Of Trust

120

Jerome Powell Did Community Banks Dirty

121

A Big Week, FinTech Bubble 2.0 & A Bezos Mentorship

122

Your Best First Investments, Home Sales & Repos

123

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

124

The Truth About The Data & We Are Changing

125

Office Space, Crypto, CPI & A Strange Suit

126

Mounting Debt, Real Estate Agents & Drugs

127

We Have Not Avoided A Recession Yet

128

Cash Or Trash And $100 For That Ass

129

Happy New Year, Real Estate & Recession Red Flags

130

Nike Translated, Silent Depression & No Pigeons

131

Patrick Bet-David's Reverse Market Crash Exposed

132

Tumultuous Times Ahead, Haroon On PTO & Uncertainty

133

No One Knows What Happens Next & The Two Comma Club

134

Jordan Franks | From Football To Finance

135

Inflation Doesn't Solve All Problems & RIP Charlie Munger

136

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

137

A Market Crash, Housing Impossible & Not So Open AI

138

Inflation Drops, NAR Gets Popped & Racks and Bibles

139

The Recession Saga And A Market Adjustment

140

JP Goes Hard, Nouriel Roubini Sells Out & Head Bobbing

141

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

142

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

143

What All This Debt Could Mean For You

144

GDP, Economists, Consumption & Rates Cuts

145

Housing Affordability, Realtor Problems & Saied Is Grumpy

146

Recession Red Flags, Home Sales Slow & Treasuries Pop

147

Rents Dropping, Syndications Popping & Apple Juice

148

CPI & PPI Swing, A Housing Bubble & Fraud

149

What This Crazy Bond Market Means For You

150

Redfin v. NAR, Housing, Squatting & Sex Talk

151

Everything You Need to Know About The Fed

152

Meaningfully Higher, Global Economy, ARMs & Aloha

153

Listener Appreciation Q&A Episode

154

The Fed Holds, Housing Peaks & Saied Fisting

155

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

156

Inflation, Income, Home Prices & A 3 Star Review

157

A HUGE Mistake, Goldilocks & Haroon Returns

158

Airbnb, Beige Book, Roku, WeWork & A Bromance

159

Oh Yeah!, Insurance Changes & Happiness

160

99 Problems, But Mitch Ain't One

161

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

162

Rolling Recession, Mortgage Rates & Why Saied?

163

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

164

Mortgage Rates, Fed Minutes & Janet Yellen Gets High

165

Larry Wheels | Adversity Builds Character

166

Student Loan Repayment, Creating Wealth & Affordability

167

Inflation Tamed, A Government Recession & Haroon Wears Salmon

168

This Is When The Recession Arrives

169

Austin Office, Luxury Homes & Dallas Aribnb

170

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

171

Recession Odds Are A Joke & Saied Is Basically Drake

172

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

173

Home Price Regression, Two Economists and Two Road Trips

174

Inflation Breakdown and How to Interview for a Job

175

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

176

BS Jobs Report, Bankruptcies, and Haroon Ends The Show

177

The Special 4th of July Episode

178

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

179

San Francisco Needs Batman, Return To Office & Home Sales

180

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

181

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

182

Jerome Powell is Skipping, Inflation and CEO to DJ

183

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

184

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

185

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

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

Dissension Amongst the Fed Ranks and Chris Rants

190

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

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

The Fed Kills Banks, the Aftermath and the Galactic Menagerie

195

The Big First Republic Episode

196

GDP Breakdown, Home Value Hype and FRC Wants a Handy

197

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

198

Beige Book, Look at Earnings and Saied is the Villain

199

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

200

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

201

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

202

Jim Cramer Says You're Good Unless you Work Here