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Don McDonald Show - Don McDonald
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Talk about the most important parts of life with Don McDonald, entertainer, educator, author, and talk radio veteran. Don has been helping listeners wade through the problems we all face since 1988 with simplicity, humor, and a solid grasp of the workings of the financial world. He has a knack for making the complex understandable and the confusing comprehensible in an entertaining package that makes the Don McDonald Show a podcast pleasure.
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DonShow5.23: Timing is Everything
May 23, 201400:13:51Tap to summarizeWe all know interest rates are rising. Right? Well, then why was this fund that bets on rising rates been such a loser? Speaking of losers. Many of you have redisovered one of the dumbest ways to speculate, ever! Finally, a cool new gadget that will help you find your lost keys or your lost phone (as long as you don't lose both).
Transcribe →DonShow5.16: Required to Do Right?
May 16, 201400:15:09Tap to summarizeShouldn't everyone who works with YOUR money be required to act in your best interest? You would think so, but most hope they don't have to. Some sneaky malware that will make you wish you had backed up your files. Plus, the only sure way to make more money.
Transcribe →DonShow4.25: Lower Fees are Better
Apr 25, 201400:16:23Tap to summarizeVanguard starts offering inexpensive investment advice and some advisors are mad. Brokers start offereing horrible, expensive, complicated, misleading, etc. Equity Indexed Annuities. About a third of U.S. households live "hand-to-mouth."
Transcribe →DonShow4.19: 80 Years and We Still Don't Get It
Apr 18, 201400:19:32Tap to summarizeIf over 80 years of evidence hasn't done it, what will it take to convince "investors" that no one knows what the stock market will do in the future. Why does Dave Ramsey believe that load funds are better than no-load funds? (Hint: Follow the money.)
Transcribe →DonShow4.11: Less Fee Lyching at Merrill?
Apr 11, 201400:18:23Tap to summarizeIs Merrill's boss serious about fee transparency. My musings on our motivations for work. Finally, the case against gloom and doom.
Transcribe →Don McDonald Show 3.20.14
Mar 20, 201400:06:34Tap to summarizeThe Don McDonald Show merges with the old InvestoRadio for a new weekly podcast starting about March 28th.
Transcribe →Don McDonald Show 3.14.14
Mar 14, 201400:09:21Tap to summarizeThey sent a sales package to the wrong investment advisor. Why would anyone send me sales literature on a non-publicly traded real esate investment trust (REIT)? I'm sure glad they did though, so I can sgare the huge risks and high fees with you.
Transcribe →Don McDonald Show 3.12.14
Mar 12, 201400:10:14Tap to summarizeBe careful when buying individual municipal bonds. The spreads are onerous, and then there's that whole issue of no diversification.
Transcribe →Don McDonald Show 3.11.14
Mar 11, 201400:12:45Tap to summarizeTurn $25 a month into $100,000 in just 10 years! That's the claim of a class being taught at colleges across the country. Ready to learn the truth?
Transcribe →Don McDonald Show 3.7.14
Mar 7, 201400:06:36Tap to summarizeCan you really turn just $25 into $100,000 in just 10 years? Sounds hard to believe, but someone is teaching classes across the country that promise to do just that. What huge annual return would be required? Find out in part one of my series, "Don't Getting Fooled in School."
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