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Whole Lotta Questions
This Friday Q&A episode of Talking Real Money features a surge in listener questions, covering key retirement and investing topics including IRA inhe…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Simple Beats "Smart"
Don and Tom tear into Kiplinger’s roundup of “best money advice,” separating the genuinely useful from the obvious, the flawed, and the downright sil…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
What is an Advisor?
This episode cuts through the marketing fog around “financial advisors,” breaking them into three real categories—brokers, insurance agents, and fidu…
3 months ago
Modern Bucket Shops
Don and Tom kick things off with a colorful history lesson on 19th-century “bucket shops,” drawing a sharp parallel to today’s emerging world of toke…
3 months ago
Retiree Ripoffs
This episode shifts from investing to the growing threat of scams—especially targeting older adults—breaking down how common fraud tactics work, from…
3 months ago
Questions Aplenty
Questions? Comments?
This Q&A episode tackles a mix of practical retirement and investing questions, starting with why spousal Social Security benefit…
3 months ago
Yield Trap
This episode opens with a blistering takedown of sensationalized financial media, using a Kiplinger income piece as the latest example of how risky, …
3 months ago
Yield Trap
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This episode opens with a blistering takedown of sensationalized financial media, using a Kiplinger income piece as the latest ex…3 months ago
Final Broadcast - Two
In the final hour of the radio show, Don and Tom blend nostalgia with a blunt reality check—highlighting the looming Social Security shortfall that c…
3 months, 1 week ago
Final Broadcast - Two
Questions? Comments?
In the final hour of the radio show, Don and Tom blend nostalgia with a blunt reality check—highlighting the looming Social Secur…3 months, 1 week ago