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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Barron’s Bond Blunder

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show exposes how Barron’s ran an undisclosed advertorial from a high-fee bond fund manager pushing junk-heavy, risky products while trashing traditional bonds with misleading comparisons. Don and Tom explained why safe bonds should stay short-to-intermediate term and simple, called out a Starlink “$127 for life” internet scam, and fielded listener questions on tax-adjusted rebalancing between traditional and Roth IRAs, trimming long-held Microsoft vs. American Funds, Social Security t...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:09.9

Hi there. I want to share a phone number with you because it's kind of an important phone number.

0:16.1

That number is 855-935-8255.

0:20.5

Those last four-digit spell talk if you like to spell things out or remember them that way.

0:25.3

And we are here on Saturdays to talk about money. And we'd love to do it with you. Just give us a call.

0:33.8

855-935-talk. I'm Don McDonald in Florida.

0:43.3

Tom Cox by, sort of, by Lake Chaland.

0:46.5

High in the hills above Lake Chaland.

0:51.1

The hills are alive with the sound of Tomcock.

0:53.3

Yeah, well, let's not get carried away.

0:55.2

I didn't hear anything last night.

0:57.5

It was very quiet, so the stars are very visible.

0:58.7

I will say that from my heart. We have discussed the bad advice that exists in so much of the financial media.

1:06.0

And one of the, one of the whipping boys for us is Barron's.

1:10.8

Barons tends to be so short-term-oriented in their opinions and direction,

1:16.6

but they're going to new lows because they're allowing people who are selling stuff to write for them.

1:24.2

It's blatant advertorial.

1:26.0

But it's not even identified as such.

1:28.7

No, it is not.

1:29.6

Nope, it is not.

1:30.4

But the guy who wrote it manages a non-traditional bond fund that charges 1.23% a year.

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