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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Don celebrates the continued success of the Friday Q&A format and the encouraging first week of sales for his novel The Line Uncrossed, including a strong Kirkus review, before tackling a series of listener questions centered on retirement income and fixed income investing. He explains how his combination of cash reserves, a CD ladder, and bond funds supports a disciplined withdrawal strategy, discusses why diversified bond funds like BND still play an important role in reducing portfolio...

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0:00.0	Your guides to a really great financial future.
0:09.0	Tom and Don are talking real money.
0:11.4	You know what's great about Fridays?
0:14.2	Well, two things.
0:15.6	One, of course, I get to answer all these great questions, which is my favorite part of the job.
0:19.9	It always has been.
0:20.7	When I started in talk radio... to answer all these great questions, which is my favorite part of the job. It always has been.
0:28.5	When I started in talk radio, I mean, it was all collar driven, question driven, idea driven.
0:36.5	I mean, I started in talk radio, I think it was 1985, so 41 years doing talk. And then when I went on to to do the old Ways and Means Committee and then
0:39.4	the Don McDonald Show on Business Radio Network, I hated having guests. I just hated that.
0:47.4	And I loved it when the network got big enough that it was like even in the middle of the night,
0:52.1	even at 1 a.m. We would just get nonstop calls.
0:56.3	Just absolutely great calls.
0:58.2	Lots of wonderful questions.
0:59.8	You know, I was flipping through the Morning Star book or the S&P books and looking
1:03.0	stocks up and just I loved answering questions.
1:07.1	And then the show just kind of morphed into all questions all the time because the numbers
1:12.3	were really good. So that's why I like doing it. The other reason I like doing it is the numbers are
1:21.1	really good. It's funny, almost every week, the most downloaded episode of Talking Real Money is the Friday Q&A show.
1:31.7	So that tells me you like it too.
1:34.1	So it's not just me.
1:35.5	But if you really like it, then you really need to send me some questions.
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