MoneyThirty: Recent Episodes
Don McDonald
New Money Thirty podcast information is now being incorporated into the new, longer, weekly “Talking Real Money Quick” podcasts on this service or at talkingrealmoney.com Money and investing are too simple to feel so complicated. Thirty year financial talk radio host, Don McDonald, shares over three decades of money wisdom in this series of short podcasts that get to meat of money matters. Money Thirty brings you the truth about saving, investing, and protecting YOUR money without the pain in the brain caused by listening to most financial “experts.”
The Money Thirty podcasts may be ending but the content continues as part of Talking Real Money.
Why does Dave Ramsey get debt right and investing wrong? Is he deluded or self-serving?
If the Dow’s components are actively selected how can it be a real index? Plus, it’s an antique.
It's time to take a closer look at one of your biggest retirement tools, your 401k (or 403b).
How long will it take to double your money and how much risk will you need to take to do it?
SPECIAL SERIES - Part 4: More behavioral biases that lead us to make terrible investment decisions.
SPECIAL SERIES - Part 3: More behavioral biases that lead us to make terrible investment decisions.
SPECIAL SERIES - Part 2: Beware of the behavioral biases can lead to terrible investment decisions.
SPECIAL SERIES: Why are we such bad investors? The problem lies within our brains behavioral biases.
What we perceive as risky is often not as risky as we imagine. Speculation is very risky, but investing...
Add up to a month a year to your life by hiring someone else to worry about your money.
SPECIAL EPISODE: How proper rebalancing can help you buy securities low and sell them high.
Are you smarter than most? Think you can beat the market? Don't confuse hindsight with foresight.
Just as age improves fine wine or whiskey, the years can bring valuable wisdom to financial advisers.
How much money do you need to retire comfortably or rich and how go about getting there.
What impact does politics have on a real investors portfolio? Probably less than you think.
How can you determine the value of an asset. It's not what you want it's what you can get.
As Don head out on a 3+ week vacation, he leaves you with five financial facts to tide you over.
The vast majority of what you read, watch, and hear is not investing. It's gambling or worse.
You'd think that the top 20 investing podcasts would be about investing, but you'd be wrong.
Here's a simple way to approximate how long it will take your money to double at a certain rate.
Does it make sense to pay more and get less? That's exactly what active money managers offer.
A relatively simple plan is the key to breaking bad investing habits and creating wealth.
There's a reason we need to study history, to gain perspective of what is a true crisis and what isn't.
Some of the least trusted professionals work with your money. Maybe they should try truth.
Key Ten. Stop worrying about what you can't control and focus on planning for possibilities.
Key Eight. Emotions are an investors worst enemy. So, keep calm and carry on investing.
Key Seven. The financial future is something everyone wants to know. Yet no one possibly can.
Bonus: Where there's blind greed there is bound to be lots of crime. Be crypto careful!
Key Six. There is a simple way to dramtically reduce the risk of permanent loss in your portfolio.
Bonus. It you haven't been watching BitCoin you've missed watching money's wildest ride.
Key Four. If you want to make money your must take smart risk (that means accepting volatility).
KEY THREE. There's a reason they say: "Past performance does not guarantee future results."
Key Two. It is unlikely that you or any other active money manager can beat the markets.
Another reason to mistrust your financial advisor: Are they telling the truth about fees?
On this 9th anniversary of the great bull market what have we learned? It is better to be in or out?
After being consistently wrong for so long, we would stop looking for "expert" market predictions
Our brains want to appear smarter than they are, playing tricks that make us bad investors.
Insuring against life's disasters is expensive, so how much protection do you you really need?
Long-term investing success doesn't require that someone lose money for you to make it.
Not only do vastly underestimate our retirement needs, we have dramatically under saved.
Our fear of loss is stronger than our desire for gain even when the odds are identical.
These two simple words and letters can make it easier to start investing for retirement.
The old school mutual fund industry will not easily succumb to the new school money managers.