Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
Tom Tests Don
28 minutes Posted Jul 9, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
Opening the Quiz Show
Magnificent Seven Question
Roth IRA Withdrawals
Inflation Bonds Explained
Debt Avalanche Debate
Efficient Market Hypothesis
Return on Equity
Net Present Value Zero
Emergency Fund Risk
Dollar Cost Averaging
Portfolio Allocation Questions
Summer Vacation Talk
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In what may be our last quiz, ever, Tom turns the tables and puts Don in the hot seat with a Wall Street Journal high-school personal finance quiz—covering the Magnificent Seven, Roth IRAs, TIPS, efficient markets, yield curves, market risk, and dollar-cost averaging. Don does reasonably well, but not without protesting a dubious “debt avalanche” question and getting tangled up in a couple of accounting and risk terms. After the quiz-show nonsense, the guys tackle a listener question from Jos...