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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This Friday Q&A episode tackles several thoughtful listener questions covering 401(k) investment choices, Roth conversion strategies, bond market fears, inherited IRA planning, and investment club mechanics. Don explains why opaque collective investment trusts and “cycle” funds often hide market-timing strategies, cautions against making large Roth conversions based on predictions about future tax rates, and reassures investors worried about inflation and national debt that markets alread...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:10.2

Welcome to another exciting, albeit still, semi-light edition of the Friday Talking Real Money question and answer edition of the podcast.

0:23.6

A little light, not terrible, though.

0:26.3

Not terrible.

0:26.9

I always try to keep enough questions in abeyance for the following week's show,

0:32.4

so I'm pretty sure I have it.

0:34.3

This week I thought I did that, and then I checked and there were some problems.

0:39.7

But we've gotten those rectified. And now I have my full light edition, four question setup.

0:50.3

I was trying to think of what the word was for it, but I couldn't remember.

0:55.2

Whatever. You know, I couldn't remember. Whatever.

0:56.2

You know, I got some questions from people that sent them in.

0:59.9

And how did they send them in?

1:01.4

Well, it was easy.

1:02.9

They went to talking realmoney.com and then hit the contact button, and then they hit the, I have a question, and then they recorded their question with their voice in their microphone, on their device.

1:14.7

And then I put it into a program that makes it sound even better.

1:20.9

I don't know how they do this stuff, but it works.

1:23.1

So it makes me happy.

1:24.7

Makes the show sound better.

1:26.3

So we've got four questions.

1:27.5

You can send yours in at talking realmoney.com on the contact form.

1:30.9

If you speak them, they go on the Friday Q&A podcast.

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