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Every Great Company Is a Cult. Here’s How They Get You.
Episode 355
Every great company wants loyal customers. The really great ones want believers. This week, we look at what happens when a business stops selling you…
1 day, 6 hours ago
AI Agents Organized, Cheated, and Learned to Hide
Episode 354
Apparently 1,200 AI agents left alone in separate sandboxes will eventually do what humans always do: find each other, form a group chat, cheat the t…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Fed Made This Mistake Once. America Paid for 16 Years.
Episode 353
What if the ugliest economic decade in modern American history wasn’t just history — but a warning label? In Episode 353, we go back to 1971, when Ni…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Private Equity Is Broken: How Debt, Fees & Leveraged Buyouts Really Work
Episode 352
Private equity sold itself as the smartest money in the room. Turns out, a lot of that “genius” may have just been 40 years of falling rates, cheap l…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
OpenAI Bought the Narrative: The Shocking Truth About TBPN & Silicon Valley Media
Episode 351
Silicon Valley didn’t suddenly fall in love with podcasts because everyone discovered the joys of long-form conversation. They figured out something …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Treasury Is Buying Its Own Debt — Scott Bessent’s $40 Trillion Gamble
Episode 350
Episode 350, and apparently the milestone gift is discovering that the United States is now paying the mortgage with the credit card. Chris and Rajei…
1 month ago
Stagflation Is Coming? The Fed’s Inflation & Jobs Trap Explained
Episode 349
In Episode 349 of The Higher Standard, Chris breaks down why cooling CPI doesn’t mean inflation is dead, why the Fed may be walking straight into a s…
1 month, 1 week ago
Japan Just Exposed America’s Mortgage Problem And It Can't Be Stopped
Episode 348
Everyone is waiting for the next housing crash. Chris thinks they may be watching the wrong thing. In Episode 348, he connects the lessons of 2008 to…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Truth About Situational Awareness: Ken Griffin, Citadel & the AI Bubble
Episode 347
In Episode 347, Chris goes solo and pulls apart one of the wildest Wall Street stories of the year: the near-collapse of Situational Awareness, the A…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How AI Will Be The Catalyst For A Recession
Episode 346
Five years, 345 episodes and one painfully empty chair later, THS enters its next era. Chris is back behind the mic with Rajeil riding shotgun, a lap…
2 months ago