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Bob Brooks Prudent Money Podcast — 146 episodes

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1

Is a Perfect Storm Heading Toward the Auto Industry?

2

How Can You Invest in a Roth IRA If You’re Not Eligible to Contribute?

3

What Alternative Accounts Could You Use Alongside Your 401(k)?

4

Should You Invest in Your 401(k) Plan?

5

Is a Trump Account Better Than a 529 Plan for Saving for College?

6

How to Manage Risk as a Prudent Steward

7

Can You Trust Financial Advice on TikTok? Part II

8

Can You Trust Financial Advice on TikTok?

9

Is Your College-Age Student Struggling With Online Gambling?

10

The $25,000 EV: Is It Worth Being an Early Adopter?

11

Could You Be a First-Time Homebuyer and Not Even Know It?

12

Big Changes Are Coming for Student Loan Borrowers on July 1st

13

Can You Plan Retirement and Still Fail?

14

It Pays to Be Proactive With Your Car

15

What to Be Careful About When It Comes to Credit Cards

16

How Do Higher Interest Rates Affect the Growth of Bond Funds in Your 401(k) Plan?

17

7 Retirement Hacks That Give You the Retirement Edge

18

Do You Want Your 401(k) Plan to Act More Like a Pension?

19

Could Your Car Be Under Recall With No Fix in Sight?

20

Trump’s Battle with the IRS: What Really Happened

21

Is Social Security Going to Run Out of Money Sooner Than We Think?

22

Could You Own SpaceX Stock in Your 401(k) and Not Even Know It?

23

Are We in an Artificial Intelligence Bubble?

24

Are You Intentional About Your Car?

25

Isn't Estate Planning for the Very Wealthy?

26

Where Does Inflation Come From?

27

What You Need to Know Before Buying an Annuity

28

Why You Have to Reset Your Financial Goals

29

How Can You Save Money on Your Car?

30

How to Make the Right Decisions For Your Retirement Money

31

When Does Investing Turn Into Gambling?

32

Are We Running Into a Shortage of Motor Oil?

33

Could You Have Buried Treasure?

34

Is Now a Good Time to Buy a House?

35

Trump Account or 529 Plan - Which is Better?

36

Is Artificial Intelligence Under Seige?

37

When It Comes to Money How Important Are Values and Goals?

38

Will an Increase of 5% Ethanol Reduce Gas Prices?

39

How To Handle an IRS Problem

40

The Hidden Risks Facing Your 401(k) Plan

41

A New Element of Risk: Do You Understand the Risks You’re Taking in This Environment?

42

Is the Government Playing With the Unemployment Report?

43

The Reality of High Gas Prices

44

Will the Dollar Crash? Is Debt Out of Control? Is Gold the Answer?

45

Can You Get Rid of Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy?

46

Is May 15th a Significant Day in the Market?

47

Are We Living on Borrowed Time?

48

How to Navigate Bad Weather

49

Is There Any Way to Make a Mortgage Payment More Affordable?

50

The 5 C's of Investment Clarity

51

Do You Want to Change Banks?

52

Is Your Bank in Trouble and You Don't Even Know It?

53

What Tony Joe Has Taught Me About Cars Over 20+ Years

54

Is It a Good Idea to Get a Big Refund Check From the IRS?

55

The Secrets of the Credit Card Industry

56

Does Work Seem to Stay in Crisis Mode?

57

What Do You When Your Car Has More Than 100,000 Miles on It?

58

How to Overcome Financial Procrastination

59

Improve Your Today. Better Your Financial Tomorrow.

60

What Your Advisor Says and What You Hear Might Be Two Different Things - Part II

61

What Your Advisor Says and What You Hear Might Be Two Different Things

62

A Gas Saving Strategy Just Released by the Government

63

Can You Retire?

64

The 4 S's of Financial Survival and Layoffs

65

What Should You Do If You Lose Your Job?

66

Why Obliterating Iran Might be a Horrible Idea

67

Are Original Car Parts Better than After Market Parts?

68

If You Are Buying a House, What is the Most Important Document You Need Before You Get Started?

69

Is the War Over?

70

More Changes for Students with Student Loan Debt

71

The Middle East - Oil, War, and Retirement Money

72

What to do if Your Car Won't Start

73

Are We at a Crossroads in the War with Iran?

74

Investing in an Uncertain Future

75

An Interesting Strategy for Maximizing Your Child's Trump Accounts

76

Which One is the Better Choice? A Roth IRA or an IRA

77

How to Save Money at the Pump - Part II

78

The 2 Most Important Bible Verses on Stewardship

79

Are You Ready for Tax Time?

80

What You Need to Know Before Buying an Annuity

81

Is it a Good Idea to Add Private Investments to 401(k) Plans?

82

Ways to Save Money at the Pump

83

Is Iran Holding Us Hostage?

84

Getting a Mortgage with Shaky Financials

85

Look for Good: Discovering God in Grief, Celebration and the Every Days

86

Are We Still at War?

87

War in the Middle East; What Should You Look Out For?

88

Unemployment, Oil, and Interest Rates

89

Trump is Fighting Back Against Colleges With Bad Student Loan Debt

90

The Middle East. Conflict or War?

91

The 5 Best Things You Can Do with Your Money

92

How Can You Save Money on Your Car?

93

Are You a Member of the 2% Club?

94

Will Tariffs Cause More Inflation?

95

Is FinTok A Credible Resource for Financial Advice?

96

Tariffs and Your Money — Is It All Gone or Do You Get a Refund?

97

The Top Red Flags When Buying A Used Car

98

How Money Became God

99

The Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act & Why It's a Good Thing For Mortgages

100

What is Going to Happen to Social Security?

101

Everything You Know About a Check Engine Light May Actually Be Wrong

102

How to Make the Right Decisions For Your Retirement Money

103

How to Manage Risk as a Prudent Steward

104

Are You Intentional About Your Car?

105

What Does Real Estate Look Like in 2026?

106

Can You Get Rid of Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy?

107

Are Interest Rates the New Financial Time Bomb?

108

Are These Tariffs For Real?

109

What Did You Learn About Driving During the 2026 Ice Storm?

110

What Is the Answer to Financial Uncertainty?

111

How To Invest in Real Estate

112

Steps to Take if You Lose Your Job

113

How do You Make Good Assumptions When it Comes to Planning for Your Retirement?

114

What Do You Do When the Weather Turns Bad?

115

What is the Probability That You Will Become Successful?

116

The Future of Student Loans

117

Is Capping 10% Interest Rates On Credit Cards A Good Idea?

118

How Risky is the Market Right Now?

119

Is There Hope for Social Security?

120

Do You Know What to Do if You Find Yourself in Debt Collection?

121

Disrupt Everything and Win.

122

How To Invest in Real Estate

123

If You Are a Buyer, How to Qualify for a Mortgage in Today's Market

124

Christmas Spending, How are You Holding Up?

125

Are We Heading for a 1929 Type Crash?

126

Are Interest Rates Up, Down, or Confused?

127

What Can 1929 Teach Us About Today?

128

The Future of Fuel: Trump Proposes to Cut Biden's 2031 Plan

129

How do You Make Good Assumptions When it Comes to Planning for Your Retirement?

130

Is There a Way to Get the Discounted Price for Tuition Costs?

131

Should Politicians Be Able to Buy Stocks and Bonds?

132

What are October Layoffs Saying About the Economy?

133

How Will Inflation Affect Consumer Prices at Christmas?

134

"The Economics of Righteousness"

135

"Success is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds"

136

The Government Has Opened Back Up. What is the Risk for Stocks?

137

Is the Artificial Intelligence Bubble About to Pop?

138

Steps to Take if You Lose Your Job

139

Are Consumers Confident or Worried?

140

How Far Can You Really Go Without Changing Your Oil?

141

Everything You Need To Know About Christmas Inflation

142

Student Loan Forgiveness: Good News or Bad News

143

What To Do Financially if Your Spouse Unexpectedly Dies

144

How Do You Know When You'll Retire

145

Did the Fed Make It Harder to Buy a House Today?

146

New Construction vs. Pre-Owned Homes. Which One is Better?