Morgan Housel
CNBC
Washington, DC, United States
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A powerful money lesson from Bill Gates: Why you should save like a pessimist, but invest like an optimist
What Bill Gates understands is that you can only be an optimist in the long run if you're pessimistic enough to survive the short run. → Read More
Here's the most overlooked fact about how Warren Buffett amassed his fortune, says money expert
More than 2,000 books are dedicated to how Warren Buffett built his wealth. Many of them are wonderful. But few pay enough attention to the simple fact that the billionaire's fortune isn't due to just being a good investor, but being an investor since he was literally a child. → Read More
The 5 biggest life lessons this dad learned from his 4-year-old: 'Why can't most adults get this?'
Kids are fascinating, with budding minds free from the social pressures and biases that cause adults to think in unproductive ways. As parents, there's so much we need to teach our kids. But we often overlook all the things they can teach us, too. → Read More
A father's letter to his kid: The 9 money and life lessons most people learn too late in life
"No amount of money can compensate for a lack of character, honesty and genuine empathy towards others," a father writes in a letter to his young child. → Read More
Six personal-finance hacks that aren’t easy but promise a big payoff
Collaborative Fund’s Morgan Housel on how to move the needle when it comes to your money. → Read More
Brexit: What We Are (And Aren't) Doing
The pundits may panic. Don't follow their lead. → Read More
Simple Financial Advice for New Grads
The best advice is rarely complicated. → Read More
What I Learned Buying a House
A venture into the real world. → Read More
Investing, the Market, and Beyond: A Day With Foolish Investors
The best part of an online community is bringing together hundreds of thousands of investors from all over the world into one place. The worst part is that we rarely meet any of those people face to face. We bridge that gap a few times a year by bringing together hundreds of our investors, advisors, analysts, and guest speakers to talk investing, business, the economy, and more. The events are… → Read More
Explaining Investing In Ways That Make Sense
It's all about context. → Read More
Why Everyone Disagrees About the Economy
We all live in our own worlds. → Read More
Wonderful Worlds (That Never Existed)
Same as it ever was. → Read More
When Everyone Wants to Be Different
Being contrarian for contrarianism's sake rarely works. → Read More
Things I'm Pretty Sure About
We're all in the same boat. → Read More
Investing, the Market, and Beyond: A Day With Foolish Investors
A peek at our recent event in San Diego. → Read More
Why Pessimists Sound Smarter Than Everyone Else
In investing, a bull sounds like a reckless cheerleader, while a bear sounds like a sharp mind who has dug past the headlines. → Read More
Something strange is happening in housing
"Prices in many D.C. suburbs are 30% to 50% higher than they were five years ago." → Read More
Things I’m Pretty Sure About
We're all in the same boat. → Read More
20 really smart things Jeff Bezos has said
"Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, is brilliant in a way that one comes around a few times a century." → Read More
How stocks respond to Fed rate hikes
The good and bad for stocks. → Read More