Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
Cash Can Be Trash
29 minutes Posted Jun 29, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Cash Sitting Idle
Retirement Withdrawal Joke
Trillions in Cash
Timing Beats Cash
Investor Behavior Gap
Cash Is Trash
Better Cash Options
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Immediate Annuities Answer
Too Much Cash?
Whole Life Warning
Handling Sequence Risk
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Are you keeping too much money in cash because you’re waiting for the “right time” to invest? In this episode, Tom and Don explain why market timing has historically been one of the costliest investing mistakes—and why even the worstinvestment timing has dramatically outperformed sitting on the sidelines. They also answer listener questions about immediate annuities, I Bonds, portfolio allocation, sequence-of-returns risk, and why using whole life insurance as an investing strategy is a bad i...