About this episode

Historian Joseph Moore discusses how historical financial strategies can inform modern wealth-building practices.

#744: With about $200 and a crypto exchange, historian Joseph Moore turned himself into a legitimate billionaire — a stunt that says more about how money actually works than most financial advice does. It's also a preview of the 300-year argument he makes in this episode: that almost everything we're told about money is newer, and far less permanent, than we think.Joseph Moore, PhD, is a historian and the national bestselling author of How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn't). His own self-experiments with historical money strategies helped him become financially independent in his mid-40s. In this episode, we discuss: How "never save your money" used to be completely reasonable financial advice Why bonds quietly beat stocks for nearly all of the 1800s How to spot when today's "obvious" financial rules are about to expire Why real estate booms always show up right alongside inflation spikes Why young people's unemployment is outpacing everyone else's — and what history says to do about it Why economic optimism and economic data have stopped matching up Why building more housing is the only housing-crisis fix that's ever actually…

People in this episode

Host: Paula Pant

Guest: Joseph Moore

Topics covered

• financial advice
• historical money strategies
• economic optimism
• housing crisis
• wealth building
• money management

Keywords

• billionaire
• crypto exchange
• financial independence
• real estate
• unemployment
• inflation
• money rules

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn't)

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