The Higher Standard
autor: Chris Naghibi
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Welcome to the Higher Standard Podcast, where we give you ultra-premium, unfiltered truth when it comes to building your wealth and curating the lifestyle of your dreams. Your host; Chris Naghibi is here to help you distill the immense amount of information and disinformation out there on the interwebs and give you the opportunity to choose a higher standard for yourself. Sit back, relax your mind and get ready for a different kind of podcast where we elevate your baseline with crispy high-resolution audio. This isn't a different standard. It's the higher standard.
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- THS LIVE | Brent Tags $118 as Nasdaq 100 Slides 3.8% & Bracing for Post-Midterm Strikes · 58 minBrent futures tagged $118 early this morning, a six-month high, and the Nasdaq 100 is down 3.8% since we last went live Wednesday, sitting at 28,518, its lowest level in a month…
- THS LIVE | Live Coverage of the Fed Rate Decision & the Post-Decision Press Conference · 1 godz. 31 minThe Fed announces its decision at 11 AM PT, right as we go live, and the setup is ugly. Markets price under a 10% chance of a hike after September's first one in three years, but…
- America Became a Casino: Kalshi, Polymarket, Pokémon Cards & the New Gambling Economy · 1 godz. 35 min · Odcinek 359America didn’t just start gambling more. It turned everything into a wager. Americans lost roughly $165 billion to legal gambling in 2025—before Pokémon cards, same-day options…
- THS LIVE | Anthropic Files for IPO, Meta Plans $95B Raise & Tesla & SpaceX Merger Talk · 57 minThe AI arms race just entered a new phase. Anthropic officially filed for its IPO, revealing the extraordinary economics and capital demands behind one of AI's biggest players…
- THS LIVE | Brent At $116, Nasdaq 100 Drops Almost 3% & US Pulls Staff From Saudi Arabia · 50 minBrent just hit $116, the highest since April 30, and the reasons keep stacking up. The U.S. ordered non-essential staff out of Saudi Arabia, Aramco told Dhahran headquarters…
- THS LIVE | Brent Jumps to $112, Then Drops on Iran Deal Reports as Nasdaq Pops To 2.3% · 43 minOil just whipsawed on a headline. Brent spiked to $111.99 on Tuesday, then reversed and settled at $108.79 when a Qatar and Pakistan "compromise proposal" hit the wires, and Iran…
- He Built a $150M Wellness Empire Without Selling Out | Cymbiotika CEO Shahab Elmi | Ep 358 · 1 godz. 11 min · Odcinek 358What does it take to build a $150 million wellness empire without selling your soul - or your company - to the highest bidder? This week on The Higher Standard, Chris sits down…
- THS LIVE | France's Bond Yields Jump as 500,000 Hit the Streets & Bonds Stay Above 5% · 1 godz. 1 minOver the weekend more than 500,000 people marched across France, with cars set on fire and over 2,000 arrests. This morning French 10-year yields jumped more than 10 basis…
- THS LIVE | An AI Debt Bomb, CoreWeave's Bond Rout, Rate Hike Fears, & Who Pays the Bill · 1 godz. 3 minCoreWeave's bonds just hit 16% yield — that's distress territory, folks, and it's telling you everything you need to know about where the AI boom actually stands right now. The…
- THS LIVE | September CPI Popped Up To 3.7%: The Fed Is Trapped & Stocks Are Falling Now · 56 minSeptember CPI just printed 3.7% — hotter than economists expected — and the market is already bleeding. Gas prices are the ignition switch, but the real story is what happens…
- America’s Hidden Debt Crisis: Why Credit Card Delinquencies Aren’t the Real Problem · 1 godz. 18 min · Odcinek 357America’s next debt crisis isn’t hiding in the numbers. It’s hiding behind them. Credit card delinquencies are either flashing red or perfectly manageable, depending on which…
- The $2 Trillion AI Bubble: What Happens If It Actually Works? · 1 godz. 12 min · Odcinek 356AI may be the most important technology of our lifetime. That does not mean Wall Street has priced it correctly. In Episode 356, we dig into Anthropic’s reported $2 trillion…
- Every Great Company Is a Cult. Here’s How They Get You. · 1 godz. 15 min · Odcinek 355Every great company wants loyal customers. The really great ones want believers. This week, we look at what happens when a business stops selling you a product and starts selling…
- AI Agents Organized, Cheated, and Learned to Hide · 1 godz. 10 min · Odcinek 354Apparently 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 test, and start looking for…
- The Fed Made This Mistake Once. America Paid for 16 Years. · 59 min · Odcinek 353What 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 Nixon closed the gold window…
- Private Equity Is Broken: How Debt, Fees & Leveraged Buyouts Really Work · 1 godz. 26 min · Odcinek 352Private 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 leverage, and somebody else…
- OpenAI Bought the Narrative: The Shocking Truth About TBPN & Silicon Valley Media · 1 godz. 23 min · Odcinek 351Silicon Valley didn’t suddenly fall in love with podcasts because everyone discovered the joys of long-form conversation. They figured out something much more valuable: if you…
- Treasury Is Buying Its Own Debt — Scott Bessent’s $40 Trillion Gamble · 1 godz. 19 min · Odcinek 350Episode 350, and apparently the milestone gift is discovering that the United States is now paying the mortgage with the credit card. Chris and Rajeil unpack Scott Bessent’s…
- Stagflation Is Coming? The Fed’s Inflation & Jobs Trap Explained · 1 godz. 8 min · Odcinek 349In 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 stagflation trap, and how a…
- Japan Just Exposed America’s Mortgage Problem And It Can't Be Stopped · 1 godz. 3 min · Odcinek 348Everyone 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 today’s mortgage market…







