The Lifecycle of Greed and Fear

The Morgan Housel Podcast

All greed starts with an innocent idea: that you are right, deserve to be right, and are owed something for the efforts you put into establishing your beliefs and opinions.
It’s a reasonable feeling. But it sets off a chain reaction that leads to an inevitable boom-and-bust cycle.
This episode explores one of the most important topics in investing: the lifecycle of greed and fear, and why it cannot, and will not, ever go away.