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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this listener Q&A episode, Don dives into some powerful topics—from calling out the sales-driven heart of the financial services industry to explaining how bond index funds are built and breaking down the tax realities of non-retirement brokerage accounts. A caller wrestles with guilt over a bad annuity recommendation for a dying relative, prompting a raw conversation about the system’s moral middle ground. Don shares his own early days as a product peddler, highlights red flags to loo...

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future. We're talking real money.
0:10.7	My goodness, time flies when we're having fun, doesn't it? Or time flies as we get older,
0:17.3	which I think is what's happening. It's that time compression thing, contraction.
0:21.9	But you know what it points out?
0:23.8	The fact that every Friday seems to be like a day apart,
0:27.3	it points out the importance of getting our acts together as we get older
0:32.8	so that we can worry less about money as our ability to worry about it declines.
0:41.4	And our ability to make it declines.
0:44.5	So that's why this show, this podcast is so blasted important.
0:51.5	And every Friday, my goal is to try to answer as many of your questions as I can
0:57.0	get in within a reasonable period of time, usually about five questions. I think that we have five or
1:01.6	six today. And you send those in by going to talking realmoney.com and then clicking the contact us
1:07.7	button and then speaking them. And by the way, they do sound really good if you speak them into an iPhone.
1:14.4	iPhones just have great mics now, the newer ones.
1:17.7	So do that.
1:19.0	Or you can call and actually have a conversation with us on Saturdays.
1:25.3	And that's when we do our show in Seattle. And that number is 855-935-
1:30.5	Talk, 855-935-8-255. So every Saturday, 3-5-Eastern, you can call and talk with us on the radio.
1:36.4	Or you can just go to TalkingRilmoney.com and send in your questions, and I'll try to answer them
1:42.5	just like I'm going to do right now.
1:45.9	Tom and Don, thanks so much for your show. I'll send a little love to Don with this
1:49.4	recorded question on my iPhone, so hopefully the speaker quality is great, but thanks for
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