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Money for Families

Money for Families

By: Nathan Pali
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Money for Families is a personal finance and behavioral psychology podcast about how families really make money decisions—and how to make them better.

Raising kids, managing debt, saving for college, buying homes, planning retirement, navigating inflation—family money life is complex, emotional, and constant. This podcast explores family finance through history, the psychology of money, and the hidden forces that shape how parents and families earn, spend, save, and worry.

Each episode blends personal finance, behavioral finance, neuroscience of money, and clear explanations of the financial system to help families understand:

  • Why family money decisions are so emotional
  • How stress, fear, and comparison shape spending and saving
  • How children learn money habits from parents
  • How credit, debt, inflation, and markets affect families
  • Why financial mistakes repeat across generations
  • How to build healthy money systems at home

This isn’t a get-rich-quick podcast or a stream of budgeting hacks. It’s a story-driven guide to family financial planning, money psychology, financial behavior, and understanding how the systems around you affect your household.

If you’re interested in family finance, personal finance for parents, money and parenting, financial habits, college savings, household budgeting, wealth building for families, and learning how to raise financially healthy kids—this podcast is for you.

Money for Families Because money shapes families. And families shape the future.

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Episodes
  • Food Was the Bank: The Hidden History of Savings and Wealth
    Jan 22 2026

    Grain pits, root cellars, and livestock were once the world’s savings accounts. This episode reveals how food storage became humanity’s first form of wealth management — and what it teaches us about financial security today.

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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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