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Summer Travel Tips
Tom welcomes consumer advocate and longtime journalist Herb Weisbaum to discuss the surprisingly expensive and increasingly chaotic summer travel sea…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Tom and Roxy Qs&As
Tom welcomes back advisor Roxy Butner for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with practical financial advice for new graduates and quickly expands…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Penny Wise?
Don and Tom take on one of investors’ biggest blind spots: focusing on tiny costs while ignoring the factors that have a far greater impact on long-t…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Older and More Aggressive?
Don and Tom take on the latest attempt to reinvent retirement investing: the claim that retirees should hold 90% stocks and just 10% bonds. They expl…
3 weeks ago
Better Income?
Should retirees live off dividends and bond interest, or use a total return strategy? Don and Tom tackle one of the most persistent myths in retireme…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Advice Evolution
Don takes listeners on a journey through nearly four decades of investment advice, explaining how his thinking evolved from recommending active mutua…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Fewer Questions
Don answers a diverse collection of listener questions covering Roth conversions, indexed annuities, emergency fund management, TSP contributions, in…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
How Bonds Work
Don and Tom tackle rising bond yields and the anxiety they create for investors, explaining why higher bond yields mean lower bond prices and why rec…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Hot IPOs, Cold Returns?
Don and Tom examine the coming wave of blockbuster IPOs, including rumored offerings from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and explain why investor exc…
4 weeks ago
What is Risk?
Don and Tom explore the difference between smart risk and dumb risk in investing, sparked by new survey data showing younger investors increasingly b…
4 weeks, 1 day ago