The psychology of Money in English

Raja Babu
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For My parents, who teach me. Gretchen, who guides me. Miles and Reese, who inspire me.

  1. 06/26/2025 · BONUS

    A Brief History of Why The U.S. Consumer Thinks The Way They Do

    To understand the psychology of the modern consumer and to grasp where they might be heading next, you have to know how they got here. How we all got here. If you fell asleep in 1945 and woke up in 2020 you would not recognize the world around you.

    22 min

  2. 06/26/2025

    Confessions

    Confessions Sandy Gottesman, a billionaire investor who founded the consulting group First Manhattan, is said to ask one question when interviewing candidates for his investment team: “What do you own, and why?” Not, “What stocks do you think are cheap?” or “What economy is about to have a recession?” Just show me what you do with your own money.

    12 min

  3. 06/26/2025

    All Together Now

    All Together Now Congratulations, you’re still reading. It’s time to tie together a few things we’ve learned. This chapter is a bit of a summary; a few short and actionable lessons that can help you make better financial decisions. First, let me tell you a story about a dentist appointment gone horribly awry.

    13 min

  4. 06/26/2025

    When you'll Believe Anything

    When you'll Believe Anything Imagine an alien dispatched to Earth. His job is to keep tabs on our economy. He circles above New York City, trying to size up the economy and how it changed between 2007 and 2009.

    15 min

  5. 06/26/2025

    The Seduction of Pessimism

    The Seduction of Pessimism “For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell.” —Historian Deirdre McCloskey Optimism is the best bet for most people because the world tends to get better for most people most of the time. But pessimism holds a special place in our hearts. Pessimism isn’t just more common than optimism. It also sounds smarter. It’s intellectually captivating, and it’s paid more attention than optimism, which is often viewed as being oblivious to risk.

    18 min

  6. 06/26/2025

    You & Me

    You & Me The implosion of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s reduced household wealth by $6.2 trillion. The end of the housing bubble cut away more than $8 trillion. It’s hard to overstate how socially devastating financial bubbles can be. They ruin lives.

    16 min

  7. 06/26/2025

    Nothing's Free

    Nothing's Free Everything has a price, and the key to a lot of things with money is just figuring out what that price is and being willing to pay it. The problem is that the price of a lot of things is not obvious until you’ve experienced them firsthand, when the bill is overdue. General Electric was the largest company in the world in 2004, worth a third of a trillion dollars. It had either been first or second each year for the previous decade, capitalism’s shining example of corporate aristocracy. Then everything fell to pieces.

    17 min

  8. 06/26/2025

    You'll Change

    You'll Change Igrew up with a friend who came from neither privilege nor natural intellect, but was the hardest-working guy I knew. These people have a lot to teach because they have an unfiltered understanding of every inch of the road to success.

    10 min
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