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.

Excellent podcast!

These two guys are unprofessional and act very childish; talking over each other and bickering every single show. How can anyone take them seriously with the childish behavior acting like junior high punks. Clean up your act, for goodness sake you are two old gizzards. Is this how you want people to remember you two by. Cut it out, the sad part is that you don’t seem to want to listen to the audience. Many listeners had commented on this, yet you removed their reviews. Grow up Don and Tom, it is very hard to listen to your podcast since your childish behavior has become worse.

These commentators evoke a mindset deeply rooted in the past, akin to a generation that believes the era of steadily declining interest rates is still in play—despite the fact that those days are long gone. With U.S. debt surpassing $35 trillion and expanding at a pace of roughly $1 trillion every quarter, it’s clear that we’re facing a vastly different financial landscape. The dollar’s value is steadily eroding under the weight of relentless money printing, and yet, these voices seem to dismiss the unprecedented nature of our current predicament. What worked in the past won’t suffice much longer, given that U.S. inflows are barely covering the interest on the debt, let alone reducing the principal. Yet, when asked about the nation’s fiscal trajectory, their glib response is, “The politicians will figure it out; they always do.” It’s hard to imagine a more perfunctory or uninspired take on such a critical issue…