Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Great advice when it comes to long term investing and planning. It gets hard to listen to at times when politics are injected. Politics can be relative to the Q&A, but it goes beyond that and you can tell what is trying to be sold. As an example, rebates on road tolls are “vote buying” (he doesn’t like Florida’s Gov) but he cheers canceling student debt and somehow that isn’t vote buying. Don also believes there isn’t enough bloat in government to make a dent if you try and cut, so the only option is to raise taxes to reduce the deficit. It makes me wonder about his objectivity on other financial investments.

This is by far one the best investment podcast out there. Don and Tom are not trying to sell any complex investments and always inject a healthy amount of skepticism into anyone who does. Crypto bros won’t like them, neither will insurance salesmen, which should be taken as solid evidence of the quality of their advice. Do I follow their advice all the time? No, particularly on alternative investments. But I would strongly consider investing with Apella, given their evidence-based fiduciary approach to investing.

I have learned a ton of information about investing from Tom and Don’s podcast. I love the real-life questions from callers and they deliver the answers in a lively and informative way. Thanks Tom and Don!

These guys are very smart and are entertaining. They have good analysis of topics and can do math. But their answer to everything is to invest in two obscure high fee ETFs which I can only assume they are paid to endorse. The show is a front for their investment firm where they claim to be fee only but push these terrible products. I looked up one of these ETFs and it’s only been around a year and has huge fees. Listen to their advice but do not buy any stocks they recommend.