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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…”
Housel: Restrictive Zoning and Underbuilding Entirely Cause the Housing Affordability Crisis
“That virtually all of the reason that housing is so unaffordable is because we don't build enough, and the reason we don't build enough is zoning.”
Housel: George Carlin understood psychology better than Daniel Kahneman
“George Carlin understood psychology. I think better than Daniel Kahneman did. That's a bold statement, but I think that is actually true.”
Housel: Elon Musk spends over half his day doing unwanted tasks
“I would venture that more than half of Elon Musk's day is doing things that he doesn't want to do.”
Housel: Ken Burns is the best storyteller in history
“I always use the example of Ken Burns, who makes the best documentaries about U.S. History. And the vast majority of what is in his documentaries are already known. A documentary about the Civil War or World War II. You know how it ends. You know what happened…”
Housel: Twitter has made people better writers through succinctness
“I also think Twitter has made people better writers because the character count limitation has forced people to be like, you have two sentences to tell me your idea. And that's all you get. That's actually, I think that's been a great thing overall for making …”
Housel: Jason Zweig is history's best financial journalist at explaining markets
“I think someone else who has done that incredibly well in the world of finances, Jason Zweig in the wall street journal, who has, Better than I think any financial journalist in history taken the complexities and the volatility of financial markets and explain…”
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.”
Housel: The Vanderbilts Squandered an Immense Fortune Faster Than Any Dynasty
“The Vanderbilt's I think did the worst by far. And It is hard to imagine another, another family who had so much money, who had the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars, who squandered it, I think is the right word, so quickly.”
Housel: Charlie Munger explains complex topics better than anyone alive
“This is probably a cliche answer, but I think Charlie Munger has done a better job than anyone alive at taking really complicated topics and explaining them in a way that is simple and entertaining.”
Housel: Mixing politics and investing provides almost no value
“That's something that I have almost no tolerance for. Is mixing politics and investing. And there's a lot of it because the two fields are kind of cousins, right? But that's something that I just see almost no good about mixing politics and investing.”