Reality Radio for a really great future.

We're talking real money.

Hello, friends and people who are just sort of acquaintances, or maybe even people who've

never listened before.

Hope you become a friend.

I'm Don McDonald.

Welcome to Talking Real Money,

the radio show that becomes a podcast next week. And I'm here to, well, spend some time trying to help you manage money better than you did before. That's our goal and has been our

goal for, geez, such a very long time.

And I'm alone today. I'm by myself. Tom is on a plane, somewhere between Phoenix and Seattle.

And so it's just you guys and me, which means I rely upon you a lot more. I know,

I know, I know. I know. I know it's additional pressure. But I'm relying on you to join me here on

the program and kind of be my wing man or woman, my semi-co-host, my asker of questions, and I'll be your answerer.

855-935 Talk is our phone number. That's 855-935-8255-8255. It's really easy. We do it every Saturday,

from noon to two Pacific time on Northwest News Radio.

And then, you know, the nice thing about this is that next week it'll be a podcast and you can go listen again.

So call 855-935-talk.

855-935-8-25-5-8-25255. I'm Don McDonald and I've made some of you angry. I apologize. I do. I'm really trying very, very, very hard not to be too political.

I get yelled at if I say anything that even comes across is political.

But when you talk about what's going on with the stock market, the bond market,

the U.S. economy, the global economy, currencies, and the like,

there will always be a political component to it. It's just not possible for these things to exist in a vacuum. Now, whatever the

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