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Intelligent Money

Intelligent Money

By: Nathan Pali
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Intelligent Money is a personal finance and behavioral economics podcast about how to think clearly about money in a world designed to confuse you.

This show explores personal finance through history, the psychology of money, and the hidden mechanics of the modern financial system—so you can make better decisions, avoid costly mistakes, and understand what’s really happening behind your bank account, investments, and debt.

Each episode blends behavioral finance, neuroscience of money, financial history, and plain-English explanations of how money actually works. You’ll learn:

  • Why smart people make irrational money decisions
  • How fear, greed, and social pressure shape financial behavior
  • How the brain processes risk, reward, and loss
  • How banks, credit, inflation, and markets really function
  • Why bubbles, crashes, and financial panics repeat
  • How incentives quietly distort financial systems
  • How to build wealth by improving judgment, not chasing returns

This isn’t a stock-tip podcast or a motivational money show. It’s a story-driven guide to intelligent investing, financial decision-making, money psychology, and understanding the systems that quietly shape modern life.

If you’re interested in personal finance, behavioral economics, psychology of money, financial history, how the financial system works, investing behavior, wealth building, and learning how to think better about money—not just manage it—this podcast is for you.

Intelligent Money Because wealth begins with how you think.

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Episodes
  • Endurance Over Growth: Why Ancient Finance Was About Survival, Not Wealth
    Jan 23 2026

    Modern finance obsesses over growth. Ancient finance focused on endurance. Discover why resilience, not accumulation, was the true measure of wealth for most of human history.

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    17 mins
  • Unpacking the Tulip Mania Bubble
    Feb 14 2026

    In this episode, we explore the historical phenomenon of Tulip Mania in the 17th-century Dutch Republic, examining how a market for exotic flowers transformed into a speculative bubble driven by contract trading. We discuss the societal conditions that enabled such speculation and the key factors that led to its eventual, yet contained, collapse.

    Chapters

    00:00 Tulip Mania's Beginnings

    00:00 The Dutch Republic Market

    02:04 Tulips as Status Goods

    03:20 The Rise of Tulip Contracts

    05:00 Low Entry, High Hype

    08:25 The Logic of Bubbles

    10:12 The Bubble Bursts

    13:02 Lessons from Tulip Mania

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    12 mins
  • Spanish Silver and Europe's Price Revolution
    Feb 13 2026

    In this episode, we explore how overwhelming quantities of silver from the Americas reshaped 16th-century European economies and triggered the 'Price Revolution.' We also discuss how this surge in global money resulted in widespread inflation, economic paradoxes for Spain, and a silent redistribution of wealth across society.

    Chapters

    00:00 Introduction to New World Silver

    01:55 The Price Revolution Begins

    04:46 Silver's Journey and Spain's Paradox

    08:46 Impact on Contracts & Society

    11:52 Spain's Struggles and Global Reach

    15:23 Lessons from Abundant Money

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    12 mins
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