{"id":331,"date":"2026-04-15T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:53:15","slug":"how-to-make-a-million-bucks-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=331","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Million Bucks an Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\">Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America&#8217;s Wealth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"309\" height=\"466\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/how-to-make-a-million.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329 size-full lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/how-to-make-a-million.jpg 309w, https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/how-to-make-a-million-199x300.jpg 199w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 309px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 309\/466;\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4vvv0L5\">Buy on Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How hedge funds make money by taking it from the rest of us\u0097and how&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;can join them!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top hedge fund managers make more than Oprah, Rupert Murdoch, and A-Rod combined but they aren&#8217;t running news and entertainment empires or playing baseball for the New York Yankees. Aren&#8217;t you curious about how these hedge fund dudes make so much doing who knows what? You may even wonder if you can get there, too. After all, this is America!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book gives you the answers in a twelve-step guide to accumulating vast riches the way hedge fund managers do, by playing trillion-dollar poker with a marked deck. Through each easy step, you&#8217;ll learn the sleight of hand and disregard for basic morality you&#8217;ll need to move from making tens of dollars an hour to millions an hour! Along the way, you&#8217;ll also question whether these hedge fund moguls make markets work better as they and their apologists insist, or cause instability, siphon off capital, and destroy value without adding so much as a single widget to the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Counters many of the most common arguments about why speculating in financial markets is somehow &#8220;worth more&#8221; than creating entertainment, electronics, or consumer goods that consumers want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Takes a fascinating tour of the wild side of fantasy finance to explain just how hedge fund managers make so much money\u2014and whether or not the million-an-hour crowd produces anything positive for society and the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teaches you hedge fund secrets that make it possible to pull down astounding sums in the space of minutes\u0097from rigging your bets to milking millions in special tax breaks\u2014<em>if<\/em>\u00a0you&#8217;re willing to bankrupt your morality for the cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America&#8217;s Wealth How hedge funds make money by taking it from the rest of us\u0097and how&nbsp;you&nbsp;can join them! Top hedge fund managers make more than Oprah, Rupert Murdoch, and A-Rod combined but they aren&#8217;t running news and entertainment empires or playing baseball for the New York Yankees. &#8230; <a title=\"How to Make a Million Bucks an Hour\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=331\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Make a Million Bucks an Hour\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-331","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}