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Oh, it's Friday.

That means it's question, answer.

And, well, today, heavy duty comment day.

Got a lot of information from listeners about a previous program question that was raised,

and so we got those too. Well, I'm not going to play all of those. I'm just going to play one of

those. Hi, everybody, Don McDonald here. This is the Talking Real Money Friday Q&A edition. I'm

glad you're listening, and I hope you'll send your questions in at Talking Real Money Friday Q&A edition. I'm glad you're listening and I hope you'll send your questions in at

talking realmoney.com on the contact form or or if it's Friday, then that's the day before Saturday.

And on Saturday, Tom and I get together most Saturdays to take your questions live and in person at 855-935 talk.

That's our Saturday number.

You can call that between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturdays, noon to 2 Pacific.

And talk with us live on our Seattle radio show that

becomes typically the Tuesday or Wednesday podcast the next week. So do that. 855935 talk or send

your question in. Talking realmoney.com, you can type it or you can speak it. And today's

edition is all about the spoken questions that came in that way. And here's our first one.

Hello, gentlemen. My company has a stock purchasing program where we get a 25% match for money

invested in company stock. The match is immediately taxed as normal income each paycheck. The stock

has then purchased the following month at that day's

market value. This is managed by a third-party investment company and supposedly I can sell

the shares the day they are purchased or keep them long term. I believe in my company, but performance

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