About this episode

Dr. Joseph Moore discusses historical financial advice and its relevance to modern investing, particularly in crypto and real estate.

In the 1800s, the smartest financial advice your grandparents could receive was: don't save money, because it will probably go to zero. Stocks were considered scams. Real estate was the only real path to wealth. Crypto isn't the future, it's a replay of something that happened dozens of times before the Civil War. Dr. Joseph Moore is a historian, a New York Times bestselling author, and someone who has spent his career proving that what always worked was always changing. His book is How to Get Rich in American History, and this conversation will make you rethink at least three things you currently believe about money. What You'll Walk Away With Why grandparents in the 1800s told their grandchildren never to save money -- and why that advice was completely rational at the time The crypto-as-past argument: why self-issued currencies have existed since before the Civil War, why they all eventually went to zero, and what the one thing is that actually made the US dollar trustworthy Why stocks beating bonds in the long run is only true since World War II -- and what that means for treating any historical financial truth as permanent The go-ahead philosophy: why Americans used to…

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Joseph Moore

Topics covered

• financial history
• cryptocurrency
• real estate
• investing
• money management
• economic philosophy

Keywords

• financial advice
• crypto history
• real estate wealth
• stocks vs bonds
• economic success
• self-issued currencies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, Dave Ramsey, Cumulus Podcast Network

Books & works: How to Get Rich in American History

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