The Grant Williams Podcast Ep. 121 - David Leiter FULL EPISODE

About this episode

David Leiter discusses his book on avoiding poor investment decisions and building real wealth.

In this episode of The Grant Williams Podcast, I welcome David Leiter for a lively and highly practical conversation about his new book, Stop Making Stupid Investments: 7 Rules to Avoid the Hype and Build Real Wealth. David traces the unlikely path from guitar-obsessed kid and struggling salesman to Credit Suisse banker, Queens real-estate investor, and ultimately author of a book designed to help people avoid the traps he has seen ruin investors again and again. From dot-com mania and crypto yield schemes to Wall Street’s talent for repackaging risk under more appealing names, David lays out a refreshingly plain-spoken framework built around cash flows, downside risk, emotional discipline, and one beautifully simple maxim: “math is the enemy of bullshit.” Every episode of the Grant Williams podcast, including This Week In Doom, The End Game, The Super Terrific Happy Hour, The Narrative Game, Kaos Theory, Shifts Happen and The Hundred Year Pivot, is available to Copper and Silver Tier subscribers at my website www.Grant-Williams.com. Copper Tier subscribers get access to all podcasts, while members of the Silver Tier get both the podcasts and my monthly newsletter, Things That…

People in this episode

Host: Grant Williams

Guest: David Leiter

Topics covered

• investing
• wealth building
• financial education
• risk management
• emotional discipline

Keywords

• investments
• wealth
• cash flows
• downside risk
• financial traps
• crypto
• dot-com mania

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Credit Suisse

Books & works: Stop Making Stupid Investments

Places: Queens

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