Learning from 130 Years of Stock Market Crashes: Resilience, Strategy, and a Dose of Doug (SB1695)

The Stacking Benjamins Show

Joe Saul-Sehy | Cumulus Podcast Network

Investing, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Markets crashing? Interest rates spiking? Inflation roaring? Welcome to history. This week, we dig into 130 years of stock market meltdowns—from the panic of World War I to the Great Depression, 1970s stagflation, the dot-com collapse, and the 2008 financial crisis—to uncover timeless lessons that can fortify your financial future. Joe Saul-Sehy is joined by Miranda Marquit, Jesse Cramer, and OG to examine how investors have historically responded to chaos... and how you should, too. You'll learn why diversification matters, why panic rarely pays, and why staying the course (even when it’s scary) can be the smartest move of all. Of course, this wouldn't be the Stacking Benjamins Show without a trivia detour that involves mailing children through the U.S. Postal Service (yes, that happened). Buckle up for laughter, insight, and financial takeaways that are as practical as they are entertaining. What WWI, the Great Depression, and 1970s inflation can teach us about investing Why “The Lost Decade” wasn’t a loss for long-term thinkers How to build a resilient portfolio that weathers the storm Our infamous trivia game: How much could a kid weigh and still be legally mailed in the 1920s? A few money-saving hacks, podcast updates, and your weekend preview from the basement Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just building your financial foundation, this episode will leave you smarter, more confident, and—let’s be honest—way more amused than the average market history lecture. FULL SHOW NOTES: https://stackingbenjamins.com/lessons-from-stock-market-history-1695 Deeper dives with curated links, topics, and discussions are in our newsletter, The 201, available at https://www.StackingBenjamins.com/201 Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I mean, you're living in your mother's basement right in the blog on finance.
0:03.5	Really, you should stay off the computer, son, and get a job.
0:06.9	Seriously.
0:12.5	Live from the basement of the YouTube headquarters, it's the Stacking Benjamin show.
0:18.3	I know! stacking Benjamin's show.
0:30.9	I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and they say that those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it.
0:32.8	So what can we glean about setting up our portfolio from the stock market crashes of the last 130 years?
0:39.9	We'll pick several and walk through case studies of how best to weather those storms.
0:45.2	Plus, because it's Friday, you know what that means?
0:47.8	I fired up my trivia engine and we'll see which of our contributors can climb the mountain
0:53.2	to be today's champion.
0:55.6	And now a guy who still believes in the latte factor, but only because he just spilled one on his keyboard, it's Joe Saul C-Hai.
1:06.2	So it's a fun way to start your Friday, stackers.
1:08.7	Do you get a phone call?
1:09.7	You didn't expect it.
1:10.7	You knock over the cup. And it's time to get a new keyboard. Welcome to Freire. I'm super happy that you're here. Sit back and relax. We've even done a history lesson dug in a long, long time. So gather around, kitty. And we have never studied some of the biggest stock market crashes.
1:29.4	But before we do that, on every Friday episode, this is a great chatty episode to end
1:34.5	each week.
1:35.5	We've got three contributors who are amazing podcasts as in their own right.
1:40.5	We will introduce our guest of honor.
1:42.5	She really a guest of honor.
1:43.5	She's like has a frequent
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