This Historian Says We're Living in the Best Era Ever, with Joseph Moore

#744: With about $200 and a crypto exchange, historian Joseph Moore turned himself into a legitimate billionaire — a stunt that says more about how money actually works than most financial advice does. It's also a preview of the 300-year argument he makes in this episode: that almost everything we're told about money is newer, and far less permanent, than we think.Joseph Moore, PhD, is a historian and the national bestselling author of How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn't). His own self-experiments with historical money strategies helped him become financially independent in his mid-40s.

In this episode, we discuss:

How "never save your money" used to be completely reasonable financial advice

Why bonds quietly beat stocks for nearly all of the 1800s

How to spot when today's "obvious" financial rules are about to expire

Why real estate booms always show up right alongside inflation spikes

Why young people's unemployment is outpacing everyone else's — and what history says to do about it

Why economic optimism and economic data have stopped matching up

Why building more housing is the only housing-crisis fix that's ever actually worked

This one's for anyone who feels like the rules of money keep changing under them — because they do, and always have. Understanding that pattern is the first step to building wealth in whatever era you happen to be living in.

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