Welcome to the Stay Wealthy Podcast. I'm your host Taylor Schulte and today with the help of friend and guest of the podcast Morgan Housel, I'm highlighting two economic stories that have flown under the radar. The first story is that Americans might be in the best financial shape they've ever been in.

And the second is that a large percentage of Americans don't agree with the first story

because they're in the worst financial shape that they've ever been in.

For all the links and resources mentioned today, head over to you staywealthy.com forward slash 93.

Okay, first things first, if you don't know who Morgan Housel is, please, please, make an effort to change that. I might argue that he's one of the best, if not the best financial

writers and thinkers of my generation.

To learn more about Morgan, I would suggest doing three things after you're done listening

today. Number one, go back to episode number 81 of this show and listen to or even

re-listen to the interview that I did with him. Number two, go check out and consider buying his book,

Psychology of Money, which I think by far was the best finance book of 2020. It was really,

really good. Number three, go and visit collaborative fund.com, check out Morgan's blog and sign up

for his email list so that you don't miss any of the

content that he's publishing. Morgan didn't ask me to say any of this. In fact, he doesn't even

know that I'm publishing this episode today. I just think that highly of him, and I know that this

audience, that all of you will only benefit from his work and his writing. So with that out of the way,

I wanted to highlight a topic, actually two stories that Morgan recently tackled that are just

too good not to share. Like many of you, I enjoy listening to podcasts. I consume most of my

content via podcast. However, I realize that there's a lot of great written content

out there that doesn't always make it into the podcast world. So I'm making an effort to do more

reading. And when I come across something like this, that I think is really interesting and may

not have made its way into the podcast world or this podcast, I'm going to share it. And so that's what I'm doing today.

If you like this format, let me know.

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