Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
Money by the Decades
38 minutes Posted Aug 4, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
Money Milestones Decade by Decade
Build Your Emergency Fund
Retirement Plans in Your 40s
Social Security and Healthcare
Listener Roth Conversion Questions
Emergency Funds in Retirement
Umbrellas and Family Offices
Portfolio Choices for Retirement
Disclosure and Sign-Off
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From your 20s to your 60s, the priorities change—but the basic job doesn’t. Don and Tom walk through emergency savings, Roth IRAs, 401(k) matches, rebalancing, retirement planning, Social Security, Medicare, and estate planning, decade by decade. Then Mary calls with a smart Roth-conversion puzzle. They weigh whose IRA to convert, how much to move without wasting a low tax bracket, the age-59½ penalty, and why a household’s accounts should be managed as one portfolio—even when the spouses ha...