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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Just Questions (and Answers)

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Investing, Education, Business, How To

4.5810 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A lively, unscripted listener Q&A episode with no set topic — just a flood of great questions. Don and Tom tackle everything from inheriting farmland to the hidden cost of medical inflation, tax-efficient short-term investments, Ameriprise conflicts of interest, fund turnover ratios, and a heartfelt tribute to the late Jonathan Clements, a true pioneer of rational investing journalism. Plenty of wit, warmth, and straight talk about money — plus a personal moment of honesty from Tom about life, loss, and gratitude. 0:04 Cold open: “A show with no topics” banter and weather humor 2:07 Angie from St. Paul: Inheriting farmland — hold or sell? 6:04 Anton from Spokane: Medflation’s impact on Social Security COLA and Medicare premiums 10:45 Jason from Tigard: SPAXX vs. SGOV — which is better for short-term cash? 13:35 Ameriprise client: Should I use an SMA or fire my advisor? 18:41 Luke from Evans, GA: ETF turnover and what it really means 23:25 Tribute to Jonathan Clements — his life, legacy, and impact on index investing 27:10 Personal reflections, audience appreciation, and gratitude from Tom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:10.6

And now for something completely different, a show with no topics.

0:15.4

Hello, welcome to the Talking Real Money podcast, which usually begins with a topic.

0:21.7

We have a topic, oh, the day.

0:23.6

Today, oh, no topic, because, oh, my gosh, thank you so much all of you for all of your

0:30.8

lovely questions.

0:32.5

We cannot begin to express our appreciation for your incredible responses to our entreaties for

0:39.6

cues for us to A.

0:42.1

A?

0:43.1

Hi, everybody.

0:44.0

I'm Don McDonald.

0:45.4

And I don't have a bad British accent.

0:47.6

No, indeed not.

0:49.0

And over there, in the Bellevuvian studio, Belvuvian? Is itovian what belvunian i don't think there i don't think

0:58.8

you're going to add anything to belvue but go right now that belvedite yes belvidite the belvedition

1:04.4

the belveditious tom cock is in the other place that we have there in Washington while I hang out and still sweat

1:13.9

mercilessly in Florida, even though for most of you, it's already fall.

1:18.5

Yeah, it is.

1:20.3

Not for us.

1:21.3

We have two seasons.

1:22.2

We have summer and sprawl, which is spring and fall kind of crammed together.

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