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Smart Enough to Know Better
Being great at running a company does not make anyone a market oracle. Don and Tom unpack the money regrets of successful CEOs—and the costly confide…
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Who Calls the Financial Plays?
Could a nation of steadier 401(k) investors make markets calmer—or will algorithms, options, and meme-stock behavior keep the ride bumpy? Tom and Rox…
1 month ago
Bond. Very Long Bond.
AI’s appetite for data centers is sending tech giants to the bond market—and some of that debt will still be around in 2075. Don and Tom look at the …
1 month ago
Nobody Knows Nothing
Why is financial forecasting so persuasive when its track record is so poor? Don and Tom open the Book of Financial Physics to Law No. 6—“Nobody Know…
1 month ago
RMDs Without the Fire Sale
Required minimum distributions don’t have to trigger a fire sale. Don explains how an in-kind transfer can move an investment from an IRA to a broker…
1 month ago
The House Takes a Cut
Wall Street can promise dazzling returns, but private equity’s fees, illiquidity, and tax drag may leave investors with far less than the headline nu…
1 month, 1 week ago
The $315K Fork
Fresh from passing the CFP exam, Roxy Butner joins Tom to work through a classic retirement fork: take the richer lifetime teacher pension, or accept…
1 month, 1 week ago
Retirement Radish?
Just when you thought America had invented every possible retirement account, along comes the Radish. Don and Tom dig into the proposed employer-fund…
1 month, 1 week ago
Worst Case, Ready
Financial Physics rule five asks the uncomfortable question every investor should answer: what is the worst that could happen? Don and Tom revisit le…
1 month, 1 week ago
Five Questions, No Magic
Don opens with a spirited defense of AI as a creative tool—especially when it makes ideas possible that would otherwise be too expensive or time-cons…
1 month, 1 week ago