Penny Wise?
Don and Tom take on one of investors’ biggest blind spots: focusing on tiny costs while ignoring the factors that have a far greater impact...
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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
34-year financial talk radio veteran, Don McDonald and former host of Serious Money on PBS, Tom Cock, join forces to talk about real money issues. In each episode, they solve real money prob...
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Older and More Aggressive?
NOTE: This episode was accidentally uploaded as yesterday's podcast. To make the information match, the correct podcast for 6/16 has been up...
Better Income?
Should retirees live off dividends and bond interest, or use a total return strategy? Don and Tom tackle one of the most persistent myths in...
Advice Evolution
Don takes listeners on a journey through nearly four decades of investment advice, explaining how his thinking evolved from recommending act...
Fewer Questions
Don answers a diverse collection of listener questions covering Roth conversions, indexed annuities, emergency fund management, TSP contribu...
How Bonds Work
Don and Tom tackle rising bond yields and the anxiety they create for investors, explaining why higher bond yields mean lower bond prices an...
Hot IPOs, Cold Returns?
Don and Tom examine the coming wave of blockbuster IPOs, including rumored offerings from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and explain why inv...
What is Risk?
Don and Tom explore the difference between smart risk and dumb risk in investing, sparked by new survey data showing younger investors incre...
Not Bogle's Vanguard
Don and Tom question whether the investment industry—and increasingly Vanguard—keeps creating new products simply to stay relevant rather th...
Stormy Q&A DAY
Don records through a booming Florida thunderstorm while tackling five listener questions. He discusses a thoughtful strategy for using a UT...
Worried About Inflation?
Don and Tom tackle investors’ obsession with inflation protection and the financial industry’s willingness to sell expensive products that p...
Can You Retire?
Most Americans are far less prepared for retirement than many assume. Don and Tom discuss new Federal Reserve data showing that only about h...
Calculating Your Future
Don and Tom tackle a Wall Street Journal financial decision-making quiz that explores how to prioritize competing goals such as retirement s...
Retirement Mistakes
Don and Tom tackle some of the most common retirement planning mistakes, with a particular focus on taxes and the danger of becoming overly...
Question Feast
Don celebrates the continued success of the Friday Q&A format and the encouraging first week of sales for his novel The Line Uncrossed, incl...
You're Right, Of Course
This episode of Talking Real Money examines why financial advice so often turns into emotional debate instead of productive problem-solving....
Free Money?
Tom and Don dismantle the myth of “free money” from high-dividend stocks and ETFs, explaining why chasing yield often leads to poor diversif...
Infinite Bubbles?
Tom and Don tackle the impossible task of spotting market bubbles in real time, leaning on insights from Jason Zweigand Eugene Fama to argue...
Q&A and Book Day
Don opens the show with a deeply personal announcement: the release of his first novel, The Line Uncrossed, inspired by the life of his grea...
Indexes Gone Wild
Don and Tom take on the uncomfortable reality that even supposedly “rules-based” index investing is starting to look suspiciously active, as...