Confident in Your Company?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's a lesson we constantly fail to learn: Avoid investing in your company's stock. Employees who believed their firm could not fail have lost billions of dollars. We compare the rate you can get on a Bank of America CD in the bank itself versus through a brokerage firm. The difference is shocking. Plus, how to make a CD ladder. Listeners stop by to ask: What should be done with an investment account with Securian? What do we think of FDIC-insured online banks? What should be done with a bunch of money that has no stated purpose? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The five pound meal deal from McDonald's.
0:02.0	Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets and a medium soft drink for guess what?
0:08.0	That's right, five pounds.
0:10.0	It's not called the five pound meal deal for nothing.
0:14.0	From 11 AM, not available on delivery.
0:16.0	Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.
0:18.0	Participating restaurants, subjects, availability.
0:27.7	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:29.7	We're talking real money.
0:39.3	Once again, before we get to my incredibly well-polished and witty introduction to the program and the topic,
0:45.6	we must implore you to call us at 855-935 talk.
0:50.8	And for those of you, without a gigantic vocabulary, implore means beg.
0:53.7	We're going to beg. I think they said the uninitiated, but okay, that's fine.
0:56.6	855-935-935-8-2-5-5-8-2-5.
1:02.4	Toll-free.
1:03.0	Like every other call in America today.
1:05.0	Oh, okay.
1:05.6	Well, I still like saying.
1:06.5	What was the last time you made a long distance call that you paid for?
1:11.8	Wow.
1:12.4	I don't know.
1:12.7	20 years ago?
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