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| 1994-1995 | Chevrolet | K2500 | Base |
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| 1995 | Chevrolet | Tahoe | Base |
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| 1995 | Chevrolet | Tahoe | LT |
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| 2005-2007 | Chevrolet | Uplander | LS |
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| 1988 | Chevrolet | V10 Suburban | Scottsdale |
| 1988 | Chevrolet | V10 Suburban | Silverado |
| 1989-1991 | Chevrolet | V1500 Suburban | Scottsdale |
| 1989-1991 | Chevrolet | V1500 Suburban | Silverado |
| 1988 | Chevrolet | V20 Suburban | Scottsdale |
| 1988 | Chevrolet | V20 Suburban | Silverado |
| 1989-1991 | Chevrolet | V2500 Suburban | Scottsdale |
| 1989-1991 | Chevrolet | V2500 Suburban | Silverado |
| 1988 | Chevrolet | V30 | Cheyenne |
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Remember: Margin of safety
Format: Paperback
Why the book was so easy and enjoyable to read? It has a lot of good examples, data, and fun facts to get the point across to the readers. The chapter titles are attention grabbers that get our attention so that we can read more. However, the most important thing to learn from this book is the "Margin of Safety."
According to the author, it is one of the most underappreciated forces in finance. It comes in many forms: a frugal budget, flexible thinking, and a loose timeline - anything that lets you live happily with a range of outcomes. Controlling your time is the highest dividend money pays.
The book is pretty much evolved around the concept of "Margin of Safety." It encourages readers to save money and not spend money lavishly. The key is staying wealthy and not just getting wealthy. We can't be complacent and assume that yesterday's success translates into tomorrow's good fortune. Wealth is what you don't see. Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.
Good investing is not about getting the highest returns. It's about getting good returns that you can stick with and which can be repeated for the longest period of time. According to the author, the historical odds of making money in US markets are 50/50 over one-day periods, 68% in one-year periods, 88% in 10-year periods, and (so far) 100% in 20-year periods.
Forecasting is hard. This is why investment guru Benjamin Graham strongly advocates for the margin of safety, as the purpose of the margin of safety is to render the forecast unnecessary. The author cited the success rate of venture financing from 20024 to 2014: 65% lost money, 2.5% of investments made 10X to 20X, 1% made more than 20X return, and only 1/2% (~100 companies) earned 50X or more.
According to George Soros, it is not important whether you are right or wrong but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune.
The most interesting part of the book is the last chapter: Postscript. Thanks to the internet, the world is more connected than ever. That means that the talent pool the readers compete with has gone from 100s or 1000s sprang their towns to millions or billions spanning the globe.
The author ended the book with a not-so-pessimistic note. The era of "this isn't working" may stick around. And the era of "We need something radically new, right now, whatever it is" may stick around.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
★★★★★ 5
The Psychology of Money: A Masterclass on Wealth, Human Nature, and True Happiness
Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money is not your typical finance book. It's an insightful and profound exploration of how human behavior, rather than cold hard numbers, often determines financial success—or failure. If you’re looking for a book that teaches you how to manage wealth, understand greed, and find happiness, this is a timeless treasure trove of wisdom that transcends spreadsheets and stock markets.
Lessons in Human Behavior, Not Just Finance
Housel's genius lies in his ability to connect finance to human psychology, showing how our emotions, biases, and decision-making habits influence our financial outcomes. Unlike most personal finance books that focus on technical advice, this one delves deep into the mindset required to build and maintain wealth. Through engaging storytelling and real-life anecdotes, Housel illustrates that how we think about money is often more important than what we actually know about it.
The Power of Compounding Behavior
One of the book’s core messages is the immense power of compounding—not just in terms of investments but in life itself. Housel masterfully explains how small, consistent decisions can lead to huge gains over time, whether in wealth-building, relationships, or personal growth. He reminds us that patience and discipline are the cornerstones of financial success, and that short-term thinking is often the enemy of long-term wealth. His examples of how figures like Warren Buffet amassed fortunes through simple, disciplined investing make this concept strikingly clear.
Greed: The Silent Wealth Killer
Greed is one of the most destructive forces in personal finance, and Housel addresses it head-on. Through stories of financial bubbles, crashes, and personal downfalls, he shows how the relentless pursuit of "more" can derail even the most secure fortunes. His exploration of why it’s so hard for people to "have enough" is a sobering reminder that wealth is as much about mindset as it is about numbers. The book doesn’t just highlight the dangers of greed; it also offers practical ways to avoid falling into its trap by cultivating a sense of financial contentment.
Happiness Beyond the Dollar Signs
While the title suggests that money is the focus, happiness is the true heart of this book. Housel argues that wealth, when viewed properly, is a tool for freedom rather than a scorecard. His chapters on the importance of controlling your time, living below your means, and the intangible rewards of financial security are powerful reminders that happiness isn’t just about how much you earn, but how well you live. He masterfully weaves together the idea that wealth is not the end goal, but a means to achieve a life filled with joy, autonomy, and purpose.
Timeless Lessons for Every Reader
What sets The Psychology of Money apart is its universal appeal. Whether you're a seasoned investor, a financial novice, or someone simply seeking a healthier relationship with money, the book’s lessons are relevant and accessible. Housel’s conversational writing style makes complex concepts feel straightforward, and his ability to blend financial advice with psychology and philosophy makes this book a must-read for anyone wanting a holistic approach to money and life.
Final Verdict: A Wealth of Wisdom
Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money is a masterpiece of personal finance and self-awareness. Its lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness go far beyond dollars and cents, challenging readers to rethink their relationship with money and life itself. This book isn't just about getting rich—it’s about getting smart, getting wise, and getting happy. A timeless, essential read for anyone looking to master not just their money, but their mindset.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2024
★★★★★ 4
A Significant and Badly Needed Contribution to the Qualitative Part of our Financial Life.
Format: Paperback
From the first sentence to the last, this book provides the latest and most up-to-date evidence for financial literacy's wholesome power to enrich your entire life. The author tells stories to discover financial literacy and living a good life go hand and hand. Most financial books discuss the dominated and respected quantitative side, the sophisticated science, complicated formulas, and mind-numbing statistics. Reading the traditional personal finance genres makes people erroneously think investors need to be intelligent and aggressive to invest successfully.
The Psychology of Money is courageously different. It is about life first and finances second. Don’t we want to better understand our behavior, our sense of ourselves and what makes us tick so we can achieve that vibrant and contented life? I know I do.
The author skillfully separates the easy part of discovering the investing process versus the hard part. This may shock newbies, but understanding the quantitative aspect of finances, such as constructing a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds, is the easy part. Look, it is not the little guy or gal versus the massively intimating stock market with the macho goal of beating the average returns. Instead, this book is about understanding our behavior and the decisions we make to achieve a balanced and calm life with accepting reasonable stock market returns. Now that’s the hard part! But this author makes understanding our behavior achievable and interesting. He accepts whatever skills, experience, or knowledge readers bring to the table.
The author brings up an age-old adage that we have been taught by our elders for generations—don’t take things so personally! With life's many challenges and sometimes negative surprises, isn't it about how we react that counts? Instead, if we respond with wisdom gained from our experiences over the long haul, the challenge itself will eventually be insignificant.
The author explains that our reactive behavior, whether the sudden death of a loved one, a broken water pipe damaging our house, or a stock market crash, how we respond to each of these vastly different crises is no different. As a reviewer of this outstanding book, I took the liberty of interpreting the primary theme with my examples. With the death of a loved one, we can blame the doctors, the hospital, and isolate from friends and family, and sob over beers for the rest of your life as a lonely and bitter widow or widower, or you can blame the stock market, your broker, or valueless Wall Street for your portfolio loses. For example, it is well known that millions of investors reacted negatively for over a decade. They sat out with their two to three trillion of the longest bull market in history because they lost money in the 2008 financial crisis. So, no matter what the experience, isn't it always how we react? This book would help those unfortunate investors pull themselves and their portfolio together to get back in the market.
To bring mindfulness to our reactions, the author talked about investors' emotions, attitude, and temperament. To be successful in this counterintuitive financial system is to be aware and insightful of this powerful psychological human potential—your expectation of future returns. The Goldilocks Principle doesn't have too high return expectations or too low, but somewhere in between. But what is a reasonable expected return?
The author reports one of the most significant FACTS of the entire book: The United States Stock Market Returns 6.8% after Inflation. Allow me to repeat, 6.8%.
According to the author, our United States capitalistic system produces about 6.8% return minus inflation since the 1870s (3.1% average inflation generates a total return of 9.9%). It is the law of averages, and it is powerful if we know how to tap into it and to be 100% satisfied with average returns (It has been researched many times that too many investors fail to get average returns). Morgan explains how to harness this massive industry and what strategy will get you the average return. The goal is to earn the average return over many years. Why? Two reasons:
1. 6.8% return over inflation is a great return!
2. Because our emotions will be spared the negative reactions from the massive swings (volatility) of the stock market which will set you up to panic and “get out.”
This book will help you find that "just right" balance of your investments and your mind so you can sleep soundly with confidence and reach your financial goals over long periods of time. There is no get rich quick scheme. If a financial adviser or your best friend says that they can beat the averages, walk away, and never listen to that nonsense.
Housel encourages all investors by debunking one debilitating myth from the start. All you need to be a successful investor is patience, think long term, and one tiny piece of mathematics, the power of compound interest over decades. You do not need an MBA or a high IQ! In fact, for the newbie financial reader with no financial background or smarts, take heart, you have an advantage. He wrote: "Ordinary folks with no formal financial education can be wealthy if they have a handful of behavioral skills that have nothing to do with formal measures of intelligence."
That's me! I have never taken a financial course in my life. I flunked 2nd grade and I scored a lower than 100 IQ. But I had a huge advantage because I majored in psychology. Knowing how my mind functioned, I mitigated my return expectations of the market and drama during three of the biggest stock market crashes in history. My expectations for growth and losses are reasonable, balanced between stocks and fixed because I knew what the world-wide stock market returns since 1870. With my mind disciplined to stay the course forever and to do what I can do—control the real deal by keeping expenses low and be extremely happy with reasonable returns. I have perfect control by paying myself instead of some Wall Street mucky muck's yacht.
For years, seasoned investors poo-poo psychology (read the one and two-star reviews of this book). There is at least one huge exception. One of the most significant financial thinkers of the 20th century and the mentor and professor of Warren Buffett. Ben Graham wrote said in the very first paragraph of his monumental 623 page The Intelligent Investor, "…little will be said here about the technique of analyzing securities; attention will be paid chiefly to investment principles and investors' attitudes." (1973 revised, page 1).
The author had the great wisdom to cite a book titled “Enough” by the legendary John Bogle. Morgan tells stories of people "hit it big" (IN THE BILLIONS!). It wasn’t "enough." They want more, and in the end, they lost it all. Bogle’s most famous quote to get the market averages mentioned previously is to invest in the “entire haystack, do not look for the needle.”
The author makes an important statement that is long overdue and worth repeating—the qualitative discussions of investing is more complicated than the quantitative discussions. It is humans that make the decisions and do all the trading on the stock exchanges throughout the world. Last I heard, humans have feelings. Housel says that science is exact and is governed by predictable physical laws. Molecules and atoms do not have feelings! But millions of investors do! Sir Isaac Newton would agree. He famously lamented after losing his investments to the South Sea Disaster in the 18th century, "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." Knowledge of psychology and behavior will help you understand and protect yourself from the "madness of people."
The author covers a lot of ground because there is a lot of human behavioral and psychological constructs to explain. Luck vs. skill, attitude vs. math, being average vs. being superior, uncertainty vs. certainty, and confidence born from wisdom vs. overconfidence born from recklessness are impossible to measure and explain. The author correctly labeled these constructs “soft skills” (Hard skills are the math, statistics, graphs, and tables). Luck, attitude, accepting average returns, uncertainty, long-term horizon, and overconfidence are difficult to explain without emotional pushback from some investors. Most seasoned investors want to be intelligent, act aggressive, appear confident, and look sophisticated and soft skills will not get them that image and beat the market.
We love to think successes originated on skills, knowledge, intelligence, spreadsheets, and math. The most vital reaction to many seasoned investors is downplaying luck to investment success. But Morgan won't have it. Making money from stock and bond investing is being smart with the complicated reality we face, and spreadsheet knowledge will not be enough. That being lucky is part of the equation. He admits that the luck factor is the question that might not be answered in our lifetimes.
In the meantime, there is nothing wrong with being lucky. The returns are green too. But most seasoned investors feel insulted. Warren Buffett always reports that he is an incredibly fortunate investor born in the United States. I am lucky that I am alive after contracting stage two colon cancer twenty years ago. Any one of us could have been born in a small village in India in abject poverty, a shantytown in Lima, Peru, or one of our country's public housing projects.
Unfortunately, I gave the book four stars. There was one paragraph that does not belong in the book. I was disappointed. I agree that I might be petty, but that paragraph doesn’t make any sense because it doesn’t follow the narrative throughout. On page 218, I rewrote here for those who use the indexing strategy, especially Bogleheads:
“That doesn’t mean index investing will always work. It doesn’t mean it is for everyone. And it doesn’t mean active stock picking is doomed to fail. In general, this industry has become too entrenched on one side or the other—particularly those vehemently against active investing.”
Did the Author Lose His “Psychology” for a Moment?
I scratched my head and seriously wondered, has the author lost his mind? What in the world motivated the author had to write this when he shares how he invests, and it’s just like most Bogleheads and myself invest with low-cost index funds? I believe I can speak for most Bogleheads: of course, we are “vehemently against active investing!” It’s expensive and flawed is thoroughly agreed upon by genuine fiduciary financial advisers. Furthermore, there are books, peer-reviewed academic articles, and the Bogleheads’ forum experiences of how successful the indexing strategy has been overactive management. The author admits on the following page that 85% of active managers fail to beat the averages! The active management strategy has been proven dead for decades, and the author’s stories debunk active management. Over 35 million investors have their seven trillion dollars with Vanguard and TIAA. We know that active managers from Wall Street’s big banks and brokerage firms spend a lot of time sipping martinis on their yachts.
Other than that hideous paragraph, The Psychology of Money is a fine book because it makes a huge contribution to financial discussions and what it means to be financially literate. The qualitative argument of financial literacy is desperately needed in the financial world. The quantitative argument is appropriate for constructing your portfolio and understanding how markets only return 6.8% average for 150 years. I learned a ton by reading those books too. But after that, no amount of math, sophistication, financial engineering, or science will protect investors from a bear market. Only what is between our ears will. Investors must get our heads behind the idea that we are up against a massive industry that wants to use our money to make money for themselves.
The industry is playing a totally different game, different motivation, and most important different life values—they spend 24/7 in front of their powerful computers trading for two goals only, bonuses and beating the averages. I have one more example of luck--We are lucky that Morgan Housel wrote this important work. It is not about looking at your finances 24/7, searching for that investment “gem” that will make you rich quickly or to compete. At the end of the day, it is about doing our part in making the world a better place than it is now, being generous to those in need, be part of something bigger than yourself, and spending quality time with family and friends.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2020
★★★★★ 5
fascinating
Format: Kindle
This book the psychology of money is one of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read. I didn’t understand a lot of it because I am definitely not an investor and I know nothing about the stock Market. Morgan Housel is an excellent author and I highly recommend this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2026