Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
Four Money Moods
31 minutes Posted Dec 11, 2025 at 7:42 pm.
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Today’s show turns a national mood ring into a money lesson. Don and Tom walk through a new Wall Street Journal/NORC survey that sorts Americans into four emotional quadrants—comfortable optimists, comfortable pessimists, stressed optimists, and stressed pessimists. Tom takes the quiz live, landing squarely where most Americans do: personally comfortable, broadly pessimistic. The two unpack why sentiment is so gloomy despite solid personal finances, how risk tolerance shifts with market cycle...