Playing It Too Safe?

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 45 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: bond funds or individual bonds? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.4	today.
0:34.9	Reality Radio for a really great future.
0:38.1	We're talking real money.
0:40.0	Hello everybody.
0:41.4	Welcome to the show.
0:42.8	I'm Don McDonald.
0:44.1	This is Talking Real Money.
0:45.5	And with me, as always, most weeks, unless, of course, he takes off early for a soccer game or something.
0:53.6	It's Tom Cock in the Bellevue studio.
0:58.4	He knows.
0:59.0	You're going to tell me something.
1:00.2	I'm going to tell our listeners.
1:01.7	I know.
1:02.3	I got to learn to be more careful.
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