CW 332: Deregulated Hedge Funds with Les Leopold Author of ‘How to Make a Million Dollars An Hour’
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Release Date: 08/11/2013
2421 FBF: Nose For Trouble, Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers & Redefining Adversity With Michael Ainslie
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Start your journey to financial independence. Learn how you can be an Empowered Investor today! Get your tickets to now! See you all on May 15-17, 2026, Friday to Sunday. This Flashback Friday is from episode 1413 published last Mar 17, 2020. Can we talk about something else? Jason Hartman invites Michael Ainslie to the show to discuss his book, A Nose For Trouble. As well, Michael shares his business tactics helping to grow Sotheby’s in his time with the company. In his stories as Director of Lehman Brothers, Michael talks about SATURDAY MORNING, the weekend that changed Wall...
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2420: Investment Mindset: Navigating the Math of Real Estate Success
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Start your journey to financial independence. Learn how you can be an Empowered Investor today! Get your tickets to now! In today's 10th episode show, Jason discusses how personal mindsets and cognitive biases often serve as the primary obstacles to financial success. He argues that direct real estate investment is superior to Wall Street products because it allows for greater control and avoids the hidden fees associated with traditional fund managers. To maintain a positive outlook during challenges, Jason emphasizes the importance of standardizing financial...
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2419: The Mobility of Capital: Escaping Predatory Global Tax Regimes with #MichaelZuber
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Start your journey to financial independence. Learn how you can be an Empowered Investor today! Get your tickets to now! Jason and Michael Zuber discuss the negative consequences of current economic and social policies in Western nations. They argue that countries like Australia and the United States are using high levels of immigration to temporarily mask deeper financial mismanagement and housing shortages. They focus on progressive tax regimes in cities like Seattle and New York, which aggressively target the wealthy and drive away essential tax revenue. They...
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2418 FBF: 1397 Macro-Addict: George Gammon, Inflation, Financial vs Real Economy, & Grow Smart, Not Big
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Start your journey to financial independence. Learn how you can be an Empowered Investor today! Get your tickets to now! This Flashback Friday is from episode 1397, published last February 24, 2020 Jason Hartman is joined today in Medellin, Columbia with Macro-Addict, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Real-Estate expert, George Gammon. Jason and George discuss U.S. inflation when compared to Columbian inflation and the two different economies to consider. What does this mean for interest rates when considering inflation and taxes? What is the difference between bottoms-up and top-down analysis? And...
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2417: The Financial Predators: Exposing Wall Street's Rent Seeking and Graft
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Start your journey to financial independence. Learn how you can be an Empowered Investor today! Get your tickets to now! Jason welcomes, financial expert Barry James Dyke as he discusses his research into the systematic corruption and "rent-seeking" behaviors of Wall Street institutions. He highlights how major asset managers like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs prioritize their own profits and bonuses through high fees and taxpayer-funded bailouts, even when their clients suffer significant losses. Dyke critiques modern financial vehicles like 401(k)s and ESG...
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2416 FBF: Reduce Investment Risk with The Hartman Risk Evaluator - Pt 1
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This Flashback Friday is from episode 1373, published last January 21, 2020. George Gammon interviews Jason Hartman about The Jason Harman Risk Evaluator. In Part I of this three part series, Jason describes his ‘aha moment’ after 19 years of experience in Real Estate. The story begins with a call from Jennifer, an insurance agent in Irvine, California that leads to the necessity and application for understanding the LTI (Land to Improvement ratio). Start your journey to financial independence. Learn how you can be an Empowered Investor today! Get your tickets to now! Websites: ...
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2415: Real Estate Scams Revealed: Why True Wealth is "Built to Be Boring" with Jonathan Greene
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
In this interview, real estate expert Jonathan Greene discusses the prevalence of scams and "get-rich-quick" schemes within the investment coaching and syndication industries. He emphasizes that successful real estate investing is inherently "boring" and long-term, contrasting it with the high-priced, flashy programs marketed by modern gurus on social media. Greene warns investors to watch for MLM-style referral structures and hidden fees, advising them to prioritize transparency and "skin in the game" from sponsors. He advocates for...
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2414 FBF: Dr. Robert Johnson - Invest with the Fed, Maximizing Portfolio Performance by Following Federal Reserve Policy & What to Expect When You’re Electing, American College of Financial Services
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
To start things off, Jason shares his thoughts on what a Trump presidency may look like for real estate investors, how Trumps trade policies will affect the markets and how aligning your interests with the Federal Reserve allows investors to game the system. Today’s guest Dr. Robert Johnson is the President and CEO of the not for profit American College, author of the books, Invest with the Fed: Maximizing Your Portfolio Performance by Following Federal Reserve Policy, Strategic Value Investing and the study What to Expect When You’re Electing. Dr. Johnson shares his...
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2413: The 10 Million Home Shortage and Co-Living Opportunities and Client Case Study with Jarrod
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Jason explores the widening housing shortage, highlighting a recent White House estimate that the United States is undersupplied by 10 million units. While the federal government suggests deregulation as a solution, the Jason argues that local complexities make significant relief unlikely, predicting instead that rents will rise as apartment oversupply clears. Data on building permits is presented to show a sharp decline in new construction across major states like Florida, Texas, and Arizona, which the host interprets as a signal of continued scarcity and high prices. He encourages listeners...
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2412 FBF: Ed Conard - Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong
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This Flashback Friday is from episode 743, published last October 25, 2016. Guest Ed Conard is an economist who worked with Mitt Romney at Bain Capital, he is the New York Times Bestselling Author of Unintended Consequences: Why everything you’ve been told about the economy is wrong and his upcoming book, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class promises to educate and enlighten. Discussions during this podcast include misnomers about CEO pay, why the technology sector is wildly profitable and how a complex web of regulations may be only...
info_outlineJason talks with Les Leopold on his new book: "How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Financial Elites get away with siphoning off America's Wealth." In the interview, Les details just how hedge funds are making unthinkable amounts of money.
Les Leopold co-founded and currently directs two nonprofit organizations, the Labor Institute of New York and the Public Health Institute. He designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment and economics. He also serves as a strategic consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance which brings together trade unions and environmental organizations. Leopold designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment, and economics and helped form an alliance between the United Steel Workers Union and the Sierra Club. He is a proud graduate of Oberlin College and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1975).
Leopold also authored several other books about "The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi," (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006.) If you'd like to read more by Les, you can take a look at his articles published by AlterNet at http://www.alternet.org/authors/les-leopold-0