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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Another Busy Q&A Day

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This Q&A episode of Talking Real Money covers a wide range of listener questions, from proposed “youth retirement accounts” and 529 plans to the deceptive marketing tactics behind indexed annuity steak dinners. Don also shares details about his upcoming Civil War novel, The Line Uncrossed, releasing May 22. Other topics include Vanguard’s ETF stock split, the difference between quantitative investing and factor-based investing used by firms like Dimensional and Avantis, and a bizarre Appl...

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0:00.0

Your guides to a really great financial future.

0:09.0

Tom and Don are talking real money.

0:11.7

And on the fifth day, he answered your questions.

0:15.5

Hello, everybody.

0:17.7

I'm Don McDonald.

0:19.1

Welcome to the Talking Real Money exciting Q&A edition. So glad that you

0:25.1

could join us on this exciting program. It's always exciting. Just never know what we're going to do

0:32.6

because that's the thing about Q&A shows. I never know what questions are going to be asked.

0:37.8

I just take them in the order they come.

0:40.5

And because they keep coming in at a reasonable rate,

0:44.8

we are able to continue the five question episodes.

0:48.0

We can't stretch to six because that would require a few more questions,

0:51.4

but we can do five.

0:53.3

You see, I like to keep enough in reserve

0:55.6

for another week. That way, I don't have to come back too dramatically if, you know, the question

1:03.0

flow trickles. By the way, the typed question flow, holy mackerel, you guys, you do like

1:10.6

typing your questions. And I've been a lot, you guys, you do like typing your questions.

1:13.1

And I bet a lot of you typed them on this little tiny phone screen.

1:17.9

My wife does that. She types everything.

1:21.7

Every thought that comes out of her head that goes to somebody else gets typed with either one finger or her thumbs.

1:29.8

I don't like typing that way.

1:32.3

I don't like typing at all.

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