Your Super-Savvy Investing Questions Answered
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 2 February 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We answer listener questions about investing including tax-loss harvesting, buying stocks on margin, and the very important difference between the price and value of a company’s stock. Then we’ll Tiptoe Through the Tooltips with Bro and 3 sites to help you quickly estimate your tax bill (or refund!) this year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I am joined by so many people today. |
| 0:10.0 | Not just Bro. But yes, there is, of course, Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. |
| 0:16.0 | And he's also the advisor on Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement newsletter. |
| 0:20.0 | Bro, we are not alone today. |
| 0:21.6 | No, we're not. |
| 0:22.6 | We have joining us. |
| 0:23.6 | Lots and lots of friends. |
| 0:24.6 | Because on this week's episode, we've enlisted the help of the team of analysts at the |
| 0:29.6 | Motley Fool to address some of your more challenging investing-related questions. |
| 0:34.6 | So we're going to cover buying stocks on margin, tax loss harvesting, and even a few stock recommendations. |
| 0:41.7 | And before we're done, Bro is going to share a whale of a tax tip with you. |
| 0:48.2 | You'll get the joke later. It's not that great. All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers. |
| 0:55.6 | Every couple months or so, we dedicate a whole episode to answering your questions, and today is that day. |
| 1:04.3 | Yay! For those of you who are beginners, you might feel that the content is a bit over your head. Some of it is over |
| 1:12.8 | mine. But don't fret. That's how we learn. Stick with us. We'll try to have a good time. |
| 1:17.6 | We will. Okay. It's a guarantee. We guarantee that we will try. |
| 1:21.6 | Absolutely. That's all we can't do, really. All right. So our first question comes to us from |
| 1:26.9 | Scott S. Scott has a question |
| 1:29.4 | about tax loss harvesting, but before we get into that, bro, can you tell us briefly what tax |
| 1:35.1 | loss harvesting is? If you have an investment outside of retirement accounts, outside of an IRA or 401K, |
| 1:40.9 | and it is currently below what you paid for it, you have a loss. If you sell it, you can use |
| 1:47.4 | that loss to offset any gains that you have, any capital gains that you recognize, and after |
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