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Housel: The Poorer People Are, the More Lottery Tickets They Buy
“And if you dig into who's buying it, it's,
Almost exclusively poor people.
They buy the vast majority of lottery tickets.
And the poorer you are, the more lottery tickets you buy.”
Housel: A Significant Percentage of Multi-Millionaire Athletes Are Bankrupt by 30
“A very significant percentage of these people who make millions of dollars are bankrupt by the time they're 30.”
Housel: Vanderbilt fortune reached $400B equivalent and was lost in three generations
“When Cornelius Vanderbilt died, his net worth adjusted for inflation cause he died in the
Was the equivalent of four hundred billion dollars. And in three generations, there was nothing left, which is an astounding thing to think about.”
Housel: Anderson Cooper was the first Vanderbilt heir to inherit nothing
“The first Vanderbilt heir to not get any money, when all the money was exhausted, the first heir where there's nothing left was Anderson Cooper of CNN. His mother was a woman named Gloria Vanderbilt. She got kind of the last trust fund in the family.”