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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

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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Listen to Talking Real Money - Investing Talk, a Business podcast by Don McDonald. Stream 1,913 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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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...

28:17Jun 11, 2026

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...

28:14Jun 10, 2026

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...

29:10Jun 9, 2026

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...

34:25Jun 8, 2026

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...

22:52Jun 5, 2026

Worried About Inflation?

Don and Tom tackle investors’ obsession with inflation protection and the financial industry’s willingness to sell expensive products that p...

32:19Jun 4, 2026

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...

29:30Jun 3, 2026

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...

38:46Jun 2, 2026

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...

38:59Jun 1, 2026

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...

24:50May 29, 2026

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....

29:44May 28, 2026

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...

35:54May 27, 2026

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...

28:29May 26, 2026

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...

21:58May 22, 2026

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...

29:27May 21, 2026

Fear Sells

Don and Tom unload on sensationalized financial journalism, taking aim at recent articles claiming the 4% withdrawal rule and classic 60/40...

34:39May 20, 2026

The Great and Powerful AI

Tom and Don explore whether artificial intelligence is truly ready to replace financial advisors, sparked by a recent Wall Street Journal ex...

34:22May 19, 2026

Selling Slowly

Tom and Don tackle one of retirement planning’s most misunderstood tools: reverse mortgages. Using the analogy of “selling your house in slo...

33:57May 18, 2026

May Questions

Don opens this Friday Q&A episode with a personal reflection on finally releasing his historical fiction novel The Line Uncrossed, inspired...

26:49May 15, 2026

Retirement Relocation Reality

Don and Tom explore one of retirement’s biggest emotional and financial questions: where should you actually live once work winds down? They...

37:15May 14, 2026

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