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Check Your Balances — 272 episodes

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1929: Is This Our Past or Our Future?

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Are You Feeding AI Financial Plans Bad Assumptions?

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What Companies Do We Hold Grudges Against?

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Did Vanguard Come up with a BETR Approach for Roth Conversions?

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Is Your Retirement Carve Out Long Enough?

6

Does Your Money Need Spring Cleaning?

7

What Might Bust Your Bracket?

8

The March Mailbag: From Scarcity Mindsets to Roth Nuance

9

SAASpocalypse, Quantum, and AI investing with Simon Erickson

10

Capital Gains and Refinances, Our favorite topics?

11

Celebrating 5 Years with a Live Listener Event

12

1099 vs W2 Jobs & More: February Mailbag

13

If you could borrow money for 100 years, should you?

14

When Does It Make Sense to Pay Retirement Account Penalties?

15

Are You Underestimating the Impact of Baby Steps?

16

Are Your Taxes Ready for the OBBB With Ryan Flanigan, CPA

17

Are Annuities and Real Estate Our Favorite Punching Bags?

18

Investing in a K Shaped Economy

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Does a tax free dividend Roth work? - Mailbag Episode

20

So Long 2025 from CYB!

21

Would The Grinch be the worst client?

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Is $100 Million Enough for Generational Wealth?

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Why buy bonds when cash looks better? - Mailbag Episode

24

Daily Budgeting: Sanity or Stress?

25

Does High Watermarking turn progress into disappointment?

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Does a 50 Year Mortgage Make Sense? - Mailbag Episode

27

How Would You Invest $100K Without the Stock Market?

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Is the Financial Plan Too Focused on Retirement?

29

How Spooky Is This Market?

30

October Mailbag: College Planning, Dollar Cost Averaging Out, Scams!

31

Is Burnout Leading to Your FIRE Dreams?

32

Selling a House: Lessons from Our Best Real Estate Investor

33

Do you have any Super Dollars? (Roth Mailbag)

34

Is It Re-fi Time?

35

Can you spot the Millionaire Next Door?

36

Can you "Rule Break" into retirement?

37

Rule Breaker Investing with David Gardner

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August Mailbag: When does overpaying a mortgage make sense?

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Are these the dumbest finance theories?

40

What Are the Strategies for Managing an Inherited IRA?

41

Scott Galloway Got Rid of His Insurance... Should you?

42

Is the OBBB Beautiful... For You?

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Do You Own Enough Emerging Markets? With Callum Thomas

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Is the New Chase Sapphire Reserve Worth It? with Sara Rathner

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Does Chat GPT Know How Taxes Work?

46

Severance & Independence

47

Liability Matching

48

Over Under: Do we know the average American's finances?

49

World's Worst Real Estate Investor?

50

Should You Use Your Roth as an Emergency Fund?

51

SALT Changes, Housing Choices, and a Recession Coming?

52

Do You Trust Your Financial Plan?

53

Would You Rather...?

54

Is That Sloppy Financial Planning?

55

Save Vs. Splurge: How to Handle "Extra" Cash

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Mailbag: Money Markets, CDs, and Estates!

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Hedging Your Index Funds

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Tariff Tantrum

59

Money March Madness

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Accessing Your Home Equity

61

Market Timing

62

The "Oracle" Still Loves Equities

63

Mailbag: Can You Have Too Much in Your 401(k)?

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Golden Handcuffs: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

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What Do Advisors Actually Do?

66

What's Your Money Personality?

67

Leasing & More with Jesse Cramer of Best Interest

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Happy New Years! Let's Locate Your Assets!

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Would You Buy a Home With Cash Right Now?

70

The Gift You Don't Want: Timeshares

71

December Mailbag: Super Catch-Up, Taxes on Gifts, and More!

72

Capital Gains | Should you be taking gains?

73

Episode 200: Happy Thanksgiving!

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Debate 2024: Ross and Dan Face off

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Veterans Day Mailbag: VA Benefits, 529 to a Roth, and more!

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Election Episode

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Reviewing: Rich Dad Poor Dad

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Love is... Blind?

79

Taxes After Retirement

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October Mailbag: Safe Withdrawal Rate, Different Investments at $500K?

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New Home with Drew McKenzie

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Rate Cut: What does it mean for you?

83

Is Your 401(k) a Scam?

84

Refi Time... Already?

85

September Mailbag: Should you get married for tax benefits?

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The Impact of Social Security

87

August Mailbag: Taxes on IRAs, Long-Term Care Insurance, and More!

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Welcome Back Market Volatility

89

Who Needs Estate Plans? with Meredith Hill, Esq.

90

The SECURE Act ...again, really.

91

All Thing Tax with Jasmine DiLucci, JD, CPA, EA

92

How good is your 401(k)?

93

July Mailbag | Recasting, RMDs, and More!

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Beach Reads: Summer Reading List

95

Bobby Bonilla Day

96

Cranky Advisors: A Rant Episode

97

June Mailbag: Inherited IRAs, Trusts, and Part-time Planning

98

Reckless Predictions

99

Mo' Valuation with Brian Feroldi

100

May Mailbag: Credit, Share Count, and Rollovers

101

Paycheck to Paycheck

102

Public Access to Private Companies

103

Finance 101

104

Valuation with Ryan Hutchins

105

Broker Bonuses

106

Do you feel rich?

107

Real Estate Update with Adrienne Messeca

108

March Mailbag: Covered Calls, Trust v Beneficiary, and Roth Eligibility

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Financial Shame

110

Is that legal?

111

The Lindy Effect

112

Just Add Leverage?

113

February Mailbag: Cash Balance Plans, I-Bonds, and 529 Plans

114

How Many Bank Accounts?

115

Magically Change the Tax Code

116

Billionaire Ideas: Should you ever own a bond?

117

January Mailbag: Backdoor Roth, I-Bonds, and... dogs?

118

An Interview with Adam Nash: CEO and Co-Founder of Daffy

119

An Interview with JL Collins

120

2023 In Review

121

Moore vs United States with Taxgirl

122

Shark Tank

123

December Mailbag: Securities Lending, Non-controlling Interest, and Gold!

124

Remembering Charlie

125

Living Abroad with Stewart Patton

126

Thanksgiving with Chris Hill

127

The Cockroach Portfolio

128

November Mailbag: Time Value of Money, Home Gains Exclusion, and More!

129

Spooky Season: But, Don't Worry!

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Billionaire Money Regrets: Magic Johnson

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Did Michael Lewis Get Duped?

132

Can you write off your dog?

133

October Mailbag: Carve Out Clarification, Great States, and More!

134

Where to Retire?

135

Carve Out vs. Dividends: Portfolio Income Showdown

136

Clickbait We Hate

137

September Mailbag: Backdoor Roth, Target Date Funds & Spinoffs!

138

Rent vs. Buy: 2023 Edition

139

Rob the Roth? & Safe-Harbor for Taxes

140

Is a Corporate Trustee Right for You?

141

Logical Extremes

142

August Mailbag: Roth Never?

143

Talking Money with Mom and Dad

144

The History and Future of Index Funds

145

Would You Rather?

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Mortgage Mania

147

June Mailbag: AI Stock Picking, Social Security Strategy and More!

148

Tipping with Dr. Michael Lynn

149

Vacation Homes: How to think about it?

150

What We're Fearing and What We're Hearing

151

Car Buyer University with Chris Johnson

152

Dollar For - Crushing Medical Bills

153

Financial Anxiety with Adam Koren

154

May Mailbag: Net Worth Adjusting, Bank Location, and more!

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Will Better Credit Hurt Your Mortgage Rate?

156

Permission to Spend Your Money

157

Golf and Investing

158

Tax Time!

159

April Mailbag: Bank Rants, SIPC Limits, and More!

160

FREE Student Loan Resources with Betsy Mayotte

161

Silicon Valley Bust

162

Insurance Trends: An Conversation with Matt Malkus

163

10 Takeaways from Warren Buffett's 2023 Letter

164

Chat GPT for financial advice?

165

February Mailbag: Rentals, B-Corporations, and More!

166

Love and Money

167

Tax Traps to Avoid

168

Reactions to FinTok Advice

169

A Brief History of Retirement

170

January Mailbag: QCDs, Index Fund Components, and Spending Habits

171

What You Need to Know About 2.0

172

Bye 2022, Hello 2023!

173

Episode 100 with Chris Hill

174

Basketball and Business: A Conversation with Mike Prada

175

Year End Planning Ideas

176

December Mailbag

177

Dealing with Job Loss

178

Happy Thanksgiving from Check Your Balances!

179

What in the FTX is going on here?

180

Side Hustles

181

Mailbag: Wash Sales, Long-Term Care and More!

182

The Role of Bonds

183

Cost of Living Adjustments

184

Assumable Loans, Social Security and Insurance Options

185

Can Saving for Retirement Wait?

186

September Mailbag: Tax Withholding Strategies & Access to Roth Options

187

Doom and Gloom

188

Private Companies We Wish We Could Buy

189

Interview with David Blanchett

190

Summer Hodgepodge: Student Loan Relief & More

191

The Integrated Life with Sharon Schneider

192

Investing in Real Estate

193

Getting a Late Start to Saving

194

The Most Important Number

195

Point-Counterpoint

196

Travel Talk with Andrea Sachs

197

The Biggest Loser: Thinking About Stocks with Big Losses

198

5 Levels of Financial Independence

199

The Scout Mindset

200

SECURE 2.0 - What's coming?

201

FPA Takeaways: Upstream Gifting, QSBS Exclusions

202

Is a recession coming?

203

Leaving and Receiving Gifts

204

Nowhere to hide?

205

Robert Brokamp - Rule Your Retirement

206

Nick Maggiulli - Just Keep Buying

207

Wrong Decisions, Right Outcomes

208

Positive Actions in Negative Markets

209

Student Loans with Anna Helhoski

210

Does the traditional 401(k) suck?

211

FIRE with Sean Gates, CFP

212

Cryptocurrency with Dr. Lawrence White

213

Regret as a Tool

214

Couples and Money

215

iBuying (or iSelling) - Ross Sold His House

216

Janice Gets a Job Offer

217

Donor Advised Funds

218

Estate Planning and Uncertainty

219

Morningstar's New Safe Withdrawal Rate; ETFs Vs Index Funds

220

Business Lessons From Our Favorite Shows

221

Celebrating Our First Year with a Market Correction

222

An Interview with Brian Feroldi

223

We Make an NFT

224

January Mailbag Episode

225

2021: A Market Review

226

Holiday Gift Guide

227

The name's Bond...I Bond.

228

Talking with Andrew Schear of Practical Personal Finance

229

Talking Taxes with the Tax Girl

230

Funemployment and Thanksgiving!

231

Rent, Buy, and PMI

232

Small-Cap and International Investing: A Discussion with Bill Mann

233

Balancing Short- and Long-Term Goals

234

Happy Halloween: Financial Planning Horror Stories

235

Self-Directed IRAs: An Interview with Mat Sorensen

236

Coast FI(RE) and Lifestyle Drift

237

Richer, Wiser, Happier: A Chat with William Green

238

When to Sell

239

Personal Finance Lessons from the Movies

240

Episode 33: Understand your "Options"

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Episode 32: Back to School - Our Financial Literacy Curriculum

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Episode 31: The Advisory Business, Interview with Alan Moore

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Episode 30: Talking Banking with Dr. Terri Friedline

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Episode 29: Advice To Our Younger Selves

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Episode 28: Should you rollover your 401(k)?

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Episode 27: What can we learn about planning from the lottery?

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Episode 26: Revisiting the SECURE Act

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Episode 25: Cash Allocations and Beyond

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Episode 24: Talking Budgets with Kimberly Palmer

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Episode 23: All Things Insurance

251

Episode 22: Relocation and Inflation

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Episode 21: 10 Concepts to Make You a Better Investor

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Episode 20: Health and Wealth with Dr. Michelle Fritsch

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Episode 19: Active vs Passive Investing

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Episode 18: Could annuities improve your investing?

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Episode 17: Scams

257

Episode 16: What are you excited for in retirement?

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Episode 15: Jordan Josephs, Celebrity Business Manager

259

Episode 14: Scott Lloyd Talks Taylor Swift

260

Episode 13: The Side Hustle

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Episode 12: Target Date Funds & $100(ish) Million Deli

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Episode 11: Talking Credit Cards with Sara Rathner from Nerd Wallet

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Episode 10: Together We Bake & Helpful Tips

264

Episode 9: Crooked Crab Brewing

265

Episode 8: Decoding Acronyms

266

Episode 7: Managing the Downside

267

Episode 6: Roth, Social Security, and Tax Smoothing

268

Episode 5: 10 Takeaways from Warren Buffet's 2021 Letter to Shareholders

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Episode 4: An Interview with Chef Jonathan Krinn

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Episode 3: Kids and Investing

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Episode 2: Myths About Retirement Finances

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Episode 1: An Interview with Morgan Housel