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Bob Brooks Prudent Money Podcast — 184 episodes
How to Make Prudent Financial Decisions With Stewardship as the Goal
IRS Audit Revenue Is Down 35%. What Does That Really Mean?
What Your Advisor Says and What You Hear Might Be Two Different Things
The Top Red Flags When Buying A Used Car
Are You Making the One Big Mistake When It Comes to Diversification?
Are Larger Colleges in Trouble Because of Declining Enrollment?
The 4 S's of Financial Survival and Layoffs
What’s Really Going On With Social Security, and Will Politicians Fix It?
Did Your Car’s AC Survive the Summer or Warn You About Next Year?
Older Credit Cards or New Benefit-Rich Cards: Which Is Better?
Have We Gone Too Far With Debt? Is the Prosperity Gospel Wrong?
Banks or Credit Unions: Which Is Best for Refinancing Your Car Loan?
Is Lowering Your Car Payment Always a Good Thing?
How to Save Money at the Pump - Part II
Will the Dollar Crash? Is Debt Out of Control? Is Gold the Answer?
Are Interest Rates the New Financial Time Bomb?
Are You Holding Too Much Cash in Your Retirement Portfolio?
Want to Save Money on Your Car? You Have to Be Intentional
A New Element of Risk: Do You Understand the Risks You’re Taking in This Environment?
Are Colleges Silently Collapsing?
How Can You Adjust the Risk in Your Stock Mutual Funds?
How Much Risk Are You Taking in Your Retirement Portfolio?
What to Do if Your Car Won’t Start
Can Your Home Be Foreclosed On Even If You're Current on Your Mortgage?
Could You Be a First-Time Homebuyer and Not Even Know It?
Are Colleges Stealing From Their Donors?
Spend or Save? Is the Radish the Answer?
The Car Buying Negotiation Process: What You Need to Know
Little-Known Secrets to Maximize Your Roth IRA
Are You Upside Down on Your Car Loan?
A Stock Market Warning: Are You in the Risk Zone?
When Is the Right Time to Take Social Security?
Car Buying Tips: Understanding the Process Before You Drive Off the Lot
The Top Questions You Need Answered About the IRS
Student Loan Changes You Need to Know About
An 11% Return That Sounds Too Good to Be True?
Are You Taking Full Advantage of Your Employer's 401(k) Benefits?
How Can You Save Money on Your Car?
How Do You Handle Financial Anxiety and Worry?
The Solutions to Keeping Your Child Financially Responsible: Part 2
Your Teenager Has a Great Credit Score. What Could Go Wrong?
Is a Perfect Storm Heading Toward the Auto Industry?
How Can You Invest in a Roth IRA If You’re Not Eligible to Contribute?
What Alternative Accounts Could You Use Alongside Your 401(k)?
Should You Invest in Your 401(k) Plan?
Is a Trump Account Better Than a 529 Plan for Saving for College?
How to Manage Risk as a Prudent Steward
Can You Trust Financial Advice on TikTok? Part II
Can You Trust Financial Advice on TikTok?
Is Your College-Age Student Struggling With Online Gambling?
The $25,000 EV: Is It Worth Being an Early Adopter?
Could You Be a First-Time Homebuyer and Not Even Know It?
Big Changes Are Coming for Student Loan Borrowers on July 1st
Can You Plan Retirement and Still Fail?
It Pays to Be Proactive With Your Car
What to Be Careful About When It Comes to Credit Cards
How Do Higher Interest Rates Affect the Growth of Bond Funds in Your 401(k) Plan?
7 Retirement Hacks That Give You the Retirement Edge
Do You Want Your 401(k) Plan to Act More Like a Pension?
Could Your Car Be Under Recall With No Fix in Sight?
Trump’s Battle with the IRS: What Really Happened
Is Social Security Going to Run Out of Money Sooner Than We Think?
Could You Own SpaceX Stock in Your 401(k) and Not Even Know It?
Are We in an Artificial Intelligence Bubble?
Are You Intentional About Your Car?
Isn't Estate Planning for the Very Wealthy?
Where Does Inflation Come From?
What You Need to Know Before Buying an Annuity
Why You Have to Reset Your Financial Goals
How Can You Save Money on Your Car?
How to Make the Right Decisions For Your Retirement Money
When Does Investing Turn Into Gambling?
Are We Running Into a Shortage of Motor Oil?
Could You Have Buried Treasure?
Is Now a Good Time to Buy a House?
Trump Account or 529 Plan - Which is Better?
Is Artificial Intelligence Under Seige?
When It Comes to Money How Important Are Values and Goals?
Will an Increase of 5% Ethanol Reduce Gas Prices?
How To Handle an IRS Problem
The Hidden Risks Facing Your 401(k) Plan
A New Element of Risk: Do You Understand the Risks You’re Taking in This Environment?
Is the Government Playing With the Unemployment Report?
The Reality of High Gas Prices
Will the Dollar Crash? Is Debt Out of Control? Is Gold the Answer?
Can You Get Rid of Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy?
Is May 15th a Significant Day in the Market?
Are We Living on Borrowed Time?
How to Navigate Bad Weather
Is There Any Way to Make a Mortgage Payment More Affordable?
The 5 C's of Investment Clarity
Do You Want to Change Banks?
Is Your Bank in Trouble and You Don't Even Know It?
What Tony Joe Has Taught Me About Cars Over 20+ Years
Is It a Good Idea to Get a Big Refund Check From the IRS?
The Secrets of the Credit Card Industry
Does Work Seem to Stay in Crisis Mode?
What Do You When Your Car Has More Than 100,000 Miles on It?
How to Overcome Financial Procrastination
Improve Your Today. Better Your Financial Tomorrow.
What Your Advisor Says and What You Hear Might Be Two Different Things - Part II
What Your Advisor Says and What You Hear Might Be Two Different Things
A Gas Saving Strategy Just Released by the Government
Can You Retire?
The 4 S's of Financial Survival and Layoffs
What Should You Do If You Lose Your Job?
Why Obliterating Iran Might be a Horrible Idea
Are Original Car Parts Better than After Market Parts?
If You Are Buying a House, What is the Most Important Document You Need Before You Get Started?
Is the War Over?
More Changes for Students with Student Loan Debt
The Middle East - Oil, War, and Retirement Money
What to do if Your Car Won't Start
Are We at a Crossroads in the War with Iran?
Investing in an Uncertain Future
An Interesting Strategy for Maximizing Your Child's Trump Accounts
Which One is the Better Choice? A Roth IRA or an IRA
The 2 Most Important Bible Verses on Stewardship
Are You Ready for Tax Time?
What You Need to Know Before Buying an Annuity
Is it a Good Idea to Add Private Investments to 401(k) Plans?
Ways to Save Money at the Pump
Is Iran Holding Us Hostage?
Getting a Mortgage with Shaky Financials
Look for Good: Discovering God in Grief, Celebration and the Every Days
Are We Still at War?
War in the Middle East; What Should You Look Out For?
Unemployment, Oil, and Interest Rates
Trump is Fighting Back Against Colleges With Bad Student Loan Debt
The Middle East. Conflict or War?
The 5 Best Things You Can Do with Your Money
How Can You Save Money on Your Car?
Are You a Member of the 2% Club?
Will Tariffs Cause More Inflation?
Is FinTok A Credible Resource for Financial Advice?
Tariffs and Your Money — Is It All Gone or Do You Get a Refund?
How Money Became God
The Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act & Why It's a Good Thing For Mortgages
What is Going to Happen to Social Security?
Everything You Know About a Check Engine Light May Actually Be Wrong
How to Make the Right Decisions For Your Retirement Money
How to Manage Risk as a Prudent Steward
Are You Intentional About Your Car?
What Does Real Estate Look Like in 2026?
Can You Get Rid of Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy?
Are These Tariffs For Real?
What Did You Learn About Driving During the 2026 Ice Storm?
What Is the Answer to Financial Uncertainty?
How To Invest in Real Estate
Steps to Take if You Lose Your Job
How do You Make Good Assumptions When it Comes to Planning for Your Retirement?
What Do You Do When the Weather Turns Bad?
What is the Probability That You Will Become Successful?
The Future of Student Loans
Is Capping 10% Interest Rates On Credit Cards A Good Idea?
How Risky is the Market Right Now?
Is There Hope for Social Security?
Do You Know What to Do if You Find Yourself in Debt Collection?
Disrupt Everything and Win.
How To Invest in Real Estate
If You Are a Buyer, How to Qualify for a Mortgage in Today's Market
Christmas Spending, How are You Holding Up?
Are We Heading for a 1929 Type Crash?
Are Interest Rates Up, Down, or Confused?
What Can 1929 Teach Us About Today?
The Future of Fuel: Trump Proposes to Cut Biden's 2031 Plan
How do You Make Good Assumptions When it Comes to Planning for Your Retirement?
Is There a Way to Get the Discounted Price for Tuition Costs?
Should Politicians Be Able to Buy Stocks and Bonds?
What are October Layoffs Saying About the Economy?
How Will Inflation Affect Consumer Prices at Christmas?
"The Economics of Righteousness"
"Success is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds"
The Government Has Opened Back Up. What is the Risk for Stocks?
Is the Artificial Intelligence Bubble About to Pop?
Steps to Take if You Lose Your Job
Are Consumers Confident or Worried?
How Far Can You Really Go Without Changing Your Oil?
Everything You Need To Know About Christmas Inflation
Student Loan Forgiveness: Good News or Bad News
What To Do Financially if Your Spouse Unexpectedly Dies
How Do You Know When You'll Retire
Did the Fed Make It Harder to Buy a House Today?
New Construction vs. Pre-Owned Homes. Which One is Better?