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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Playing It Too Safe?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Americans have a lot of money in cash, earning essentially nothing. Others are happy earning a nice, safe 5% on short-term CDs and bonds. Yet, we could be shortchaging ourselves in the future by not investing properly. Don shares more details on his summer Talking Real Money Road Trip and we discuss the ramifications of the commission settlement by Realtors. Then, on to listeners phone calls: What would have been a reasonable return on a portfolio over the past few years? Which is better: b...

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:09.9

Hello everybody.

0:11.3

Welcome to the show.

0:12.7

I'm Don McDonald.

0:14.0

This is Talking Real Money.

0:15.5

And with me, as always, most weeks, unless, of course, he takes off early for a soccer game or something is

0:23.6

Tom Cock in the in the Bellevue studio he knows if you're going to tell me something I'm going to

0:30.5

tell our listeners I know I got to learn to be more careful I should just exit and not say anything

0:36.2

hey I'm all about sharing because they went to all the trouble to listen in,

0:41.4

so we might as well let them know everything that's going on.

0:45.3

I've got my hand up.

0:46.4

Is it okay if I leave early today?

0:47.7

I'm going to leave early.

0:52.4

I want to leave early today.

0:54.3

I don't want to talk about today's topics because I'm kind of bored.

0:58.8

Soccer's more fun.

1:00.5

Hey, everybody, but you can call and keep me company later when he's gone at 855-935 Talk

1:06.2

or keep us both company right about now.

1:08.2

855-935-8-25-5. It's really easy. It's really free. And it's really

1:16.3

about the things that are important to you, not the topics that we pick, which we do. We do.

1:22.5

We pick topics. That's kind of how we start out every show. But the direction we end up taking is, well, determined by you, really.

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