People approach money in very different ways. Some find it hard to save; others find it hard to spend. For some who are more pressed for free cash, the choice doesn’t exist at all. Money can be a tool for happiness or a source of stress depending on how it’s managed, or how much power you allow it to hold over you.

As the saying goes, history doesn’t always repeat, but it often rhymes. In reading 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, it’s hard not to notice the parallels between the market behaviours leading up to the 1929 crash and those we see today.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay is a book I’d heard referenced countless times but had never got around to reading. When I saw it available on Audible, I decided to finally give it a listen. This edition combines Popular Delusions with Confusion de Confusiones (translated as Confusion of Confusions)