Ray Madoff (on how billionaires avoid taxes & threaten capitalism)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- September 2, 2026
- Duration
- 2h 26m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 2, 2026
Discusses Ray Madoff (The Second Estate, Immortality and the Law, Practical Guide to Estate Planning) is a Bos…
Summary
Ray Madoff (The Second Estate, Immortality and the Law, Practical Guide to Estate Planning) is a Boston College law professor, author, and tax-policy expert. Ray joins Armchair Expert to discuss being a proudly mediocre high school student, reluctantly trading philosophy for law school, and becoming a terrible Wall Street tax lawyer who loved teaching. Ra…
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Ray Madoff (The Second Estate, Immortality and the Law, Practical Guide to Estate Planning) is a Boston College law professor, author, and tax-policy expert. Ray joins Armchair Expert to discuss being a proudly mediocre high school student, reluctantly trading philosophy for law school, and becoming a terrible Wall Street tax lawyer who loved teaching. Ray and Dax talk about America’s return to a pre-revolutionary aristocracy, how “salaries are for suckers” among the ultrawealthy, and why $50 tr