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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Don opens this Friday Q&A episode with a personal reflection on finally releasing his historical fiction novel The Line Uncrossed, inspired by his great-great-grandfather’s imprisonment at Andersonville during the Civil War. Listener questions then cover the wisdom (or insanity) of converting millions from a traditional IRA to a Roth all at once, the evolving role of “538” savings accounts, why covered calls and options strategies often disappoint despite sounding clever, skepticism over ...

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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.
0:11.7	You know, I could record this episode pretty much anytime I wanted, but I record this episode
0:17.8	on a Friday for the authenticity, for the real Friday feel, so that I'm
0:25.0	feeling Friday just like you're feeling Friday, because Friday is Q&A day here on
0:29.8	talking real money, as you're probably aware if you've been listening for more than a week.
0:34.7	It's what we do. Why? It's just what we do. I don't know. A long time ago,
0:41.1	we decided we'll do some questions on Friday, and it stuck, and it's been popular. So we're
0:47.5	going to keep doing it, but only as long as you keep sending in questions or actually speaking
0:54.1	in questions at our website
0:55.6	talking realmoney.com on the contact form or the ask a question form you just talk you record
1:01.0	your voice and then I go in to a magical program and I make it sound even better and then I put
1:09.3	it on this podcast and it plays the Friday after I record it usually
1:13.9	once I'm doing something else, you know, but generally speaking.
1:17.1	Hi, I'm Don.
1:18.5	Welcome to the program.
1:19.5	Glad you could listen.
1:21.2	I hope that we answer some things that will help you or at least entertain you just a smidge.
1:32.6	I'm personally really excited because it's just one week till I see if anybody wants to read my book. Now, I know, I know independent
1:42.7	book sales are going to be pathetic.
1:45.2	I am not expecting to make any money off this.
1:48.0	It's one of those, I don't know, it's one of those projects I've always thought about doing.
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