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Thoughts On Money [TOM] — 285 episodes
The Risk of Taking Advice from Instagram
Insurance Sales: Follow the Money
Is Gold a Good Investment?
The NYC Pied-à-Terre Tax: Who Pays and Will It Happen?
When Should You Claim Social Security?
Blue-Collar Aristocracy
Share It. Now.
Why Planning for Aging Has to Start Before There’s a Crisis
Temptation or Temperament?
Trump Accounts: Game-Changer or Gimmick?
Food for Thought - The Economics of Eating
A Financial Planning Superpower
35,000 Feet & The Things That Matter
The Jetsons vs. The Terminator - The Two Visions of Artificial Intelligence
Financial Framework for Graduates
Not an Exact Science
Ten-Dollar Finance Words
The Next Bear Market
If You Could Ask Just One Question
Room for Life
Was Jesus a Socialist?
What Kind of Spending Makes Us Happy?
American Debtmageddon
Convictions > Confirmity
Shortcuts, Head Starts, and Changing Lanes
Opting For Wisdom: Options Trading Basics
Are Your Market Expectations Realistic?
Investment Du Jour
Five Home Financing Hacks
Small-Cap Stocks are on a Tear!
Making Financial Decisions
Book Review: “The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy”
You Need to Be Bored
Looking for Wisdom in a World of Artificial Intelligence
An Overview on Credit Scores
Kyle Busch v. Pacific Life
Long-Term Care...Get It, or Forget It?
Purpose Driven Planning – End of Year Conversations
Be a Tell-Me-More Investor
Three Unrelated Pieces of Advice
The Mirror We Don’t Like to Look In
Abnormal Returns
Taxes & Fees
Is Your Portfolio Keeping Up with Inflation?
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Charts
AI BS
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce - Money and Marriage
The Boys in the Boat
It's What You Know for Sure...
The Stock Market and the Casino
When Risk Isn’t What It Seems: Rethinking the Volatility Paradigm
Write Off the Sunset: Planning Around the OBBBA
T.O.E. (Thoughts On Expenses)
Cautiously Pessimistic
Mid-Year Money Check-In
Roth Conversion Tax Traps
Why You Need to Understand Duration
Overwhelmed By Options
Unforced Errors
Compounding Growth
Nobody Knows Everything
Surplus, Steady, and Sinking – Three Types of Retirement
Why Dividend Growth?
Surviving These Markets
Go-Go, Slow-Go, and No-Go Years
For Simplicity’s Sake
The Prodigal Son
Mind the Gap
Taking Inventory of Your Cash
Answering Your Questions - Part 4
Answering Your Questions - Part 3
Answering Your Questions - Part 2
Answering Your Questions - Part 1
Should I Own Bonds?
Oversold & Underserved
Prepare for the Worst
Simple Advice to Start out the New Year
The Heart of Financial Advice
Understanding Average Returns
The Official End of Year Checklist
Future Stock Returns - Revisited
The Secret to Financial Serenity
Saving on Taxes
Returns Over the Next 10 Years
Can You Afford It?
Don't Believe the Lies
The Line and The Circle – Spending in Retirement
Eating Elephants
You've Got to Be Kidding Me
Dollar-Cost-Averaging
What To Expect When You're Expecting
Playing with House Money
Financial Milestones
Opportunity Costs
Personal Finance 101
Next to Godliness
Who's the Boss?
Knowledge is Power
Declaration of Financial Independence
A Feature, Not a Bug
Who's On Your Team?
What Goes Up Must Come Down?
The Playtpus
Records are Made to be Broken
Avoiding Big Mistakes
Summer Work
The New Lost Decade
It’s All About What You Keep
Goldie Rocks and The Permabears
Retirement Line Dancing
Diversification Via Dividends
Not If, But When
Financial Aerodynamics
Leverage: Amplifying Outcomes
When You Don't Get What You Pay For
The Allocators Cookbook
In The Absence of Truth
Rainy Days
Gone Fishing
What is Risk Anyway?
The Power of Simplicity
A New Who
New Year's Resolutions
Returns of a Jedi
And Then What?
Distracted by the What
From Confusion to Clarity
A Capitulation Situation
Circle of Competence
When it Hits Close to Home
Flaw Less
Tools for Decision-Making
Beyond the Numbers
Results Driven
Speculators Galore
The Project Checklist
Stay in Your Lane
Leave a Legacy
Low Hanging Fruit
It Ain't What You Don't Know
The Road to Flourishing
Ask Trevor
Your Greatest Asset
Financial Heirlooms
Educating the Next Generation
Health Insurance and I are not friends
Pizza Dough and Roth Conversions
Don't Be a Fair Weather Fan!
Planning for Leftovers
The Only Thing We Have to Fear
Spending Matters Most
Solving the Puzzle of Your Financial Picture
The Art of Earmarking
Finding Financial Freedom
Why It's Sometimes OK to Underperform - Revisited
Chihuahua Markets
Lessons from SVB
Too Good To Be True
FOMO on Interest
Magnify Revisted
False Alarms
Fool's Gold
Who's Got Your Ear?
Respecting Time Horizons
A Tale of Two Brothers
Experiencing Turbulence
Just One Word
The Index Card
Turkey Time Temptations
The Conversion Conversation
Historical Precedent
Informed Precision
What Are You Aiming At?
Return On Stress
Fo-evah!
Bingo, Bango, Bongo!
Timing Isn't Everything
Portfolio By Design
Storm Chasers
Permission to Transact
It's All a Bunch of Pooh
On The Contrary
Digesting The DC Today
Expense Based Planning - Revisited
Quite Interesting
Weighing Your Options
Figuring Out Your Finances
Hodgepodge and Potpourri – Part Two
Hodgepodge and Potpourri
Weathering a Recession
Timing is Everything
Going Through Withdrawals
Bondtastrophe
Peaking Interest
Should I Give a Bit?
The Dream Team
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
Staring Down A Lion, Again...
Misunderstood
I Was... Wrong.
The "Stock Market"
Sound the Alarm!
Prudent Debt
Practical Applications
Practical Hedges
Great Expectations
Getting Sandwiched
Fast Times
A Fly On The Wall
Home Sweet Home
What's the Alternative?
Apples and Oranges
Care to Be Aware
An Appetite for Risk
What's Next?
Life's Obstacles
All Time Lies
Benchmarking
The Sirens of Finance
Sky Diving and Safaris
Time is On Your Side
Reflections
Moving the Ball Down the Field
An Inflation Irritation
Liquidity Ambiguity
Dumbfounded by Diversification
The Leftovers
No Surprises
Financial Siblings
Cloning Your Money
Financial Cravings
The Madness of Methods
For the Love of the Game
When It Rains, It Pours
Lost in Translation
Eat Your Own Cooking
Trust is a Must
The Aroma of Euphoria
Tailored Fit
Unknowable
Check, Check....Can You Hear Me?
DIY YI YI
Easier Said Than Done
More Than Numbers
Completely Cryptic
Lessons on Stubbornness
The Gratification Game
The Variation of Variables
The Confounding of Compounding
Mission Possible
A Sure Thing
Are you Ready for Your Financial Report Card?
Learning How To Fish
An Active Debate
Shiny Objects
A Leading Indicator
The Commitment Crisis
Cash is Not Always King
Temper Your Tantrums
Will I Make It?
I Worked My Whole Life for This?
Expect The Unexpected
Portfolio Pick and Roll
Why Would I Want to Invest in a Week Like This?
The Endurance Sport that is Investing
Living Off the Interest
Are You Covered?
Slow and Steady Is the Way to Go
Only Hindsight is 20/20
Clarity on Charity
Funding Education Doesn't Have to Break The Bank
Lessons Learned - A Tale of Two Decades
Appreciating Income is the Thing To Do
It's Okay to Budge on your Budget
'Tis The Season To Be Tax Planning
Is it safe to invest when markets are at all-time highs?
What Direction Does Your Cash Flow?
Investing In Risk
How To Enjoy The Fruits of Your Labor
Bucking The Trend
Keep Your Eye on the Ball
What Is The Bottom Line?
Pearls of Wisdom, Buying A House, Building Your Own Pension
Who is TOM? Trevor Cummings and David L. Bahnsen
Introducing Thoughts On Money [TOM]