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Morgan Housel: The Psychology of Luck - Outside Insights

Permanent Podcast: Real Talk About Private Equity and Buying, Selling, and Operating Small Businesses

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The Precarious Balance of Life

The Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, maybe Kennedy's assassination, the end of the Cold War, 9-11, and COVID. The common denominator of every single one of those events is that nobody was predicting them until the very moment that they arrived. Anyone with $100 or less can now invest in blue chip companies for virtually no fee. A crazy statistic is that in 1929, at the peak of the market before the Great Depression, only 5% of Americans own stocks.

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