America

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18 statements across 17 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Oct 24, 2016 by Morgan Housel · across every show →

Everything said about America, oldest first

Oct 24, 2016
Opinion
Housel: American life changed more from 1900–1950 than 1950–2000
“And I think the difference in how life in America changed from 1900 to 1950 was an order of magnitude greater than how it changed from 1950 to 2000.”
Morgan Housel Oct 24, 2016 ▶ 35:04 #14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
Feb 5, 2019 positive
Opinion
Celeste Headlee: America Has Not Produced a Better Orchestrator Than William Grant Still
“Holy cow, I don't know that there's, America has produced any better orchestrator than William Grant Still. Literally over the course of its entire history.”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 6:37 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Opinion
Martin: Modern US capital markets harm American competitiveness
“I think in 2020, now America has got a capital market that is a detriment to American competitiveness because it is causing companies to behave in ways that aren't good for the company, its employees, America over overall.”
Roger Martin Nov 24, 2020 ▶ 38:33 #97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
Mar 23, 2021 positive
Opinion
Ridley: America's tolerance of failure gave it an edge over Europe
“One of the great things that America brought to the world of innovation, in my view, is a relative tolerance of failure. Compared with Most European countries. The fact that you've started a business and it went wrong was actually quite often a good thing in t…”
Matt Ridley Mar 23, 2021 ▶ 20:21 #107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
Apr 5, 2022 negative
Opinion
Srinivasan: Modern ideological America is distinct from historic America like Soviet Russia
“Woke America is to America as Soviet Russia is to Russia. Like, it's like a different thing, you know? It's like an ideological different thing.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 1:21:06 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Aug 22, 2023 negative
Insight
Rey Flemings: The U.S. presidency is outdated for managing modern complex systems
“The problem in America is with the presidency itself. You know, the idea of the presidency was developed so long ago. Hey, let's elect our king. Well, when the constitution was ratified, A human being had never traveled faster than a horse could carry them. Th…”
Rey Flemings Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 22:05 Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
May 28, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Housel: Americans Spend Roughly $100B Annually on Lottery Tickets
“In America, we spend something like a hundred billion dollars a year on lottery tickets.”
Morgan Housel May 28, 2024 ▶ 5:03 Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
Dec 24, 2024
Assertion Supported
Housel: Americans spend roughly $100 billion annually on lottery tickets
“In America, we spend something like a hundred billion dollars a year on lottery tickets.”
Morgan Housel Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 2:11 Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
Feb 25, 2025
Assertion Supported
Parrish: 19th-century Pittsburgh housed 500 factories producing two-fifths of US iron
“500 factories belching smoke into the sky, forging two-fifths of America's iron.”
Shane Parrish Feb 25, 2025 ▶ 11:49 Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
Apr 1, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Flatt: US Business Productivity Over Next 20 Years Probably Unprecedented
“But the productivity advances we see over the next 20 years probably will be unprecedented for a period of time. Certainly one, we haven't seen it for a long time, ah, in business, ah, across America.”
Bruce Flatt Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 19:12 Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
Apr 22, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Parrish: Henry Singleton became one of America's largest landowners
“Decades later, he'd become one of America's largest landowners.”
Shane Parrish Apr 22, 2025 ▶ 6:07 Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Opinion
Garry Tan: The US should issue every citizen an Artificial Superintelligence
“My argument would be, like, the most American version of it is that, like, you know, you and I have our own ASI. And, like, each, you know, each citizen should be, you know, issued an ASI and be taught how to get the most out of it.”
Garry Tan Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 1:36:23 Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Les Schwab was the first major US tire dealer branded under his own name
“With that simple instruction, Les became the first major tire dealer in America to build his business around his own name instead of a manufacturer's brand.”
Shane Parrish Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 31:34 Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
Oct 7, 2025
Assertion Supported
Hetty Green's Inheritance Case Was Among the First Using Statistical Evidence
“The ensuing court case became one of America's first trials to use statistical evidence.”
Shane Parrish Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 7:17 Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hetty Green Was America's Wealthiest Woman With an Estimated $50M Fortune
“Her wealth during this period was estimated between 40 and fifty million, making her the richest woman in America and possibly the richest woman in the world.”
Shane Parrish Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 26:30 Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
Jan 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Housel: Affordable Housing Is the Single Biggest Social Problem in America
“So housing, affordable housing, I think is the single biggest social problem, certainly in America, probably in Canada right now. Because so many other social problems that might seem bigger than that are downstream of housing. A lot of the drug problem, the d…”
Morgan Housel Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 23:58 Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tangen: Americans factually work much harder than Europeans
“And then of course you work much harder in America. I mean, that's just not something I think. It's just like the facts. You got less holiday and so on.”
Nicolai Tangen Feb 17, 2026 ▶ 10:37 The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
Apr 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Brockman: The United States Is Not the Global Leader in Robotics
“That you think about robotics where I think we are not the leader.”
Greg Brockman Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 1:03:24 Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
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