New Highs Mean Little

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Investing, Education, Business, How To

4.5 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After a big week for stocks, we address the reality of the equity markets and why a "new high" is nothing to get excited about. While 5% rates feel better than zero, we are concerened that too much money languishes in banks. Plus, more money is finally invested in passive funds than actively managed products and why it's about darned time. Listeners ask: Is Retiremeet worthwhile for those already retired? How should money be invested in a deferred compensation plan? Learn more about your ...

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0:00.0	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:08.0	We're talking real money.
0:10.4	Hi there.
0:11.1	Welcome to the show.
0:12.5	I'm Don McDonald and Tom's over there.
0:15.6	And we're here to do what we do on Saturdays and have done on Saturdays for probably more years than I can count. Well, no, I guess I still have no fingers. Yeah, no, you don't. Actually, you've been doing this show. For how long we've been on Northwest News Radio? We've been there longer than 10 years, yeah. We have? We added it up, remember a couple years ago, and it was like 10 then, so I think we still get credit for these. It was Colmo back then but still. Really?
0:39.2	That long? Yeah, that long.
0:41.3	So get over. Wow.
0:43.7	Okay, we've been doing this for longer than I can
0:45.2	count then because I only have 10
0:47.3	fingers. You got the toes.
0:49.5	Funny. We do the show
0:51.4	on Saturdays and
0:53.2	on Friday, which is literally the day before Saturday.
0:57.8	Comes every one right before it.
1:00.5	I got a text message from Jeff Poljah, Jeff Podula, easy for me not to say, at Northwest News Radio.
1:09.1	And Jeff said, would you or Tom be available to do a brief chat about the stock market
1:15.4	record high and how it affects our local businesses?
1:18.8	And I'm sitting here working on the podcast and I said, sure, Jeff, did something happen?
1:25.4	I had no idea.
1:28.3	They don't ring a bell in your studio or anything You know, this is how much...
1:29.1	They don't ring a bell in your studio or anything?
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