Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don heads out on a three week vacation. Some more info on Don’s other podcast, "MoneyThirty".Who is the bad guy in Billions? How and where to allocate your money when investing. Replacing the ‘word’ risk with the word ‘volatility’. Where to start your retirement fund after college. Looking back at investments at the turn of the millennium. What’s wrong with index and variable annuities? ...

Growing conservative with age and why this is not always a good for investments. Last week’s market plunge! Different approaches to IRAs and where to put your money. The retirement fund crisis and the what the US government might be doing about it. The insurance industry’s international power. A tough week on the stock market and is it really Armageddon? Why the markets feel volatile at the moment...

The markets at the moment and the troublesome first quarter of 2018.Building accounts that are prepared for volatility. Why you should still not being listening to Harry Dent. The problem with speculative stock broking. The so-called housing bubble and why to be cautious. Parabolic housing estimations and the unreliability of real estate. The MarketWatch list of the most popular books on investing...

An alternative Roth IRA for a younger person with a lower investment. Vanguard’s recent difficulties with customer service. A new cryptocurrency for video games called Quarters. Bill Ackman and an assortment of other scammers and swindlers. A little bit about a great new TV show called Dirty Money. Minimizing your operational expenses at Vanguard. Managing a tricky situation with a 403(b).A strate...

Why eggs are subsidized in most grocery stores. What happened to stocks and bonds in this scary first quarter. The big dip that Amazon and Facebook took in the last month. All new Diet Bitcoin! Same old diagnosis! Who knows what a cryptocurrency is? Explaining the the block chain and how it supports bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. What is cryptocurrency really good for? Weighing up the load of...

In this episode we carry on with the ongoing inspection of the last week’s market downturn. Then, we remind all of our listeners, even though at this point they should know, not to believe the hype. When the schemers and scammers come for you with deals  to good to be true, chances are it is. Our hosts remind us of the flimsiness of the word ‘guaranteed’, so be wary of this particular and popular...

On today’s show we will be tackling last week’s bad, bad, bad week on the market. Was it that bad? Maybe not as bad as you thought. Don and Tom break down why this week’s drops should not have you running for the hills before looking at some of the common mistakes made by their, not so great, rivals, other finance podcasts. They look at managed brokerage accounts and give out some free, unsolicite...