Fear Sells

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Don and Tom unload on sensationalized financial journalism, taking aim at recent articles claiming the 4% withdrawal rule and classic 60/40 portfolios are “failing” retirees. They argue that the media increasingly prioritizes fear-driven headlines over practical investing wisdom, pushing emotionally charged narratives that ignore investor behavior and long-term historical returns. The duo also push back against claims that target-date funds could wipe out retirees, explaining why diversified ...

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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.
0:12.4	Oh, man, I hate most of the advice out there.
0:15.7	These people who give this advice are just...
0:24.3	Hey, Maury. this advice or just. What is that?
0:24.6	Hey, Mori, take your finger off the...
0:26.6	That was Mori Povitt show or something
0:28.8	there for a minute.
0:29.4	Crazy.
0:29.8	Man!
0:30.7	Okay, I got it out of my system now.
0:32.7	There is so much bad.
0:34.9	I mean, we, Tom and I
0:36.6	read the financial press.
0:38.6	Sadly.
0:39.8	Veraciously, so you don't have to. And the financial press in America has fallen.
0:47.3	There's about two people that you could still read anymore that you should listen to.
0:51.5	Seriously. Otherwise, the rest of them know.
0:53.4	Some of these major publications that have been around, many of them since a hundred years ago.
1:00.2	Yeah.
1:00.7	Over 100 years ago.
1:01.8	They are just terrible.
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