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Thoughts On Money [TOM] — 270 episodes

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Not an Exact Science

2

Ten-Dollar Finance Words

3

The Next Bear Market

4

If You Could Ask Just One Question

5

Room for Life

6

Was Jesus a Socialist?

7

What Kind of Spending Makes Us Happy?

8

American Debtmageddon

9

Convictions > Confirmity

10

Shortcuts, Head Starts, and Changing Lanes

11

Opting For Wisdom: Options Trading Basics

12

Are Your Market Expectations Realistic?

13

Investment Du Jour

14

Five Home Financing Hacks

15

Small-Cap Stocks are on a Tear!

16

Making Financial Decisions

17

Book Review: “The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy”

18

You Need to Be Bored

19

Looking for Wisdom in a World of Artificial Intelligence

20

An Overview on Credit Scores

21

Kyle Busch v. Pacific Life

22

Long-Term Care...Get It, or Forget It?

23

Purpose Driven Planning – End of Year Conversations

24

Be a Tell-Me-More Investor

25

Three Unrelated Pieces of Advice

26

The Mirror We Don’t Like to Look In

27

Abnormal Returns

28

Taxes & Fees

29

Is Your Portfolio Keeping Up with Inflation?

30

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Charts

31

AI BS

32

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce - Money and Marriage

33

The Boys in the Boat

34

It's What You Know for Sure...

35

The Stock Market and the Casino

36

When Risk Isn’t What It Seems: Rethinking the Volatility Paradigm

37

Write Off the Sunset: Planning Around the OBBBA

38

T.O.E. (Thoughts On Expenses)

39

Cautiously Pessimistic

40

Mid-Year Money Check-In

41

Roth Conversion Tax Traps

42

Why You Need to Understand Duration

43

Overwhelmed By Options

44

Unforced Errors

45

Compounding Growth

46

Nobody Knows Everything

47

Surplus, Steady, and Sinking – Three Types of Retirement

48

Why Dividend Growth?

49

Surviving These Markets

50

Go-Go, Slow-Go, and No-Go Years

51

For Simplicity’s Sake

52

The Prodigal Son

53

Mind the Gap

54

Taking Inventory of Your Cash

55

Answering Your Questions - Part 4

56

Answering Your Questions - Part 3

57

Answering Your Questions - Part 2

58

Answering Your Questions - Part 1

59

Should I Own Bonds?

60

Oversold & Underserved

61

Prepare for the Worst

62

Simple Advice to Start out the New Year

63

The Heart of Financial Advice

64

Understanding Average Returns

65

The Official End of Year Checklist

66

Future Stock Returns - Revisited

67

The Secret to Financial Serenity

68

Saving on Taxes

69

Returns Over the Next 10 Years

70

Can You Afford It?

71

Don't Believe the Lies

72

The Line and The Circle – Spending in Retirement

73

Eating Elephants

74

You've Got to Be Kidding Me

75

Dollar-Cost-Averaging

76

What To Expect When You're Expecting

77

Playing with House Money

78

Financial Milestones

79

Opportunity Costs

80

Personal Finance 101

81

Next to Godliness

82

Who's the Boss?

83

Knowledge is Power

84

Declaration of Financial Independence

85

A Feature, Not a Bug

86

Who's On Your Team?

87

What Goes Up Must Come Down?

88

The Playtpus

89

Records are Made to be Broken

90

Avoiding Big Mistakes

91

Summer Work

92

The New Lost Decade

93

It’s All About What You Keep

94

Goldie Rocks and The Permabears

95

Retirement Line Dancing

96

Diversification Via Dividends

97

Not If, But When

98

Financial Aerodynamics

99

Leverage: Amplifying Outcomes

100

When You Don't Get What You Pay For

101

The Allocators Cookbook

102

In The Absence of Truth

103

Rainy Days

104

Gone Fishing

105

What is Risk Anyway?

106

The Power of Simplicity

107

A New Who

108

New Year's Resolutions

109

Returns of a Jedi

110

And Then What?

111

Distracted by the What

112

From Confusion to Clarity

113

A Capitulation Situation

114

Circle of Competence

115

When it Hits Close to Home

116

Flaw Less

117

Tools for Decision-Making

118

Beyond the Numbers

119

Results Driven

120

Speculators Galore

121

The Project Checklist

122

Stay in Your Lane

123

Leave a Legacy

124

Low Hanging Fruit

125

It Ain't What You Don't Know

126

The Road to Flourishing

127

Ask Trevor

128

Your Greatest Asset

129

Financial Heirlooms

130

Educating the Next Generation

131

Health Insurance and I are not friends

132

Pizza Dough and Roth Conversions

133

Don't Be a Fair Weather Fan!

134

Planning for Leftovers

135

The Only Thing We Have to Fear

136

Spending Matters Most

137

Solving the Puzzle of Your Financial Picture

138

The Art of Earmarking

139

Finding Financial Freedom

140

Why It's Sometimes OK to Underperform - Revisited

141

Chihuahua Markets

142

Lessons from SVB

143

Too Good To Be True

144

FOMO on Interest

145

Magnify Revisted

146

False Alarms

147

Fool's Gold

148

Who's Got Your Ear?

149

Respecting Time Horizons

150

A Tale of Two Brothers

151

Experiencing Turbulence

152

Just One Word

153

The Index Card

154

Turkey Time Temptations

155

The Conversion Conversation

156

Historical Precedent

157

Informed Precision

158

What Are You Aiming At?

159

Return On Stress

160

Fo-evah!

161

Bingo, Bango, Bongo!

162

Timing Isn't Everything

163

Portfolio By Design

164

Storm Chasers

165

Permission to Transact

166

It's All a Bunch of Pooh

167

On The Contrary

168

Digesting The DC Today

169

Expense Based Planning - Revisited

170

Quite Interesting

171

Weighing Your Options

172

Figuring Out Your Finances

173

Hodgepodge and Potpourri – Part Two

174

Hodgepodge and Potpourri

175

Weathering a Recession

176

Timing is Everything

177

Going Through Withdrawals

178

Bondtastrophe

179

Peaking Interest

180

Should I Give a Bit?

181

The Dream Team

182

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

183

Staring Down A Lion, Again...

184

Misunderstood

185

I Was... Wrong.

186

The "Stock Market"

187

Sound the Alarm!

188

Prudent Debt

189

Practical Applications

190

Practical Hedges

191

Great Expectations

192

Getting Sandwiched

193

Fast Times

194

A Fly On The Wall

195

Home Sweet Home

196

What's the Alternative?

197

Apples and Oranges

198

Care to Be Aware

199

An Appetite for Risk

200

What's Next?

201

Life's Obstacles

202

All Time Lies

203

Benchmarking

204

The Sirens of Finance

205

Sky Diving and Safaris

206

Time is On Your Side

207

Reflections

208

Moving the Ball Down the Field

209

An Inflation Irritation

210

Liquidity Ambiguity

211

Dumbfounded by Diversification

212

The Leftovers

213

No Surprises

214

Financial Siblings

215

Cloning Your Money

216

Financial Cravings

217

The Madness of Methods

218

For the Love of the Game

219

When It Rains, It Pours

220

Lost in Translation

221

Eat Your Own Cooking

222

Trust is a Must

223

The Aroma of Euphoria

224

Tailored Fit

225

Unknowable

226

Check, Check....Can You Hear Me?

227

DIY YI YI

228

Easier Said Than Done

229

More Than Numbers

230

Completely Cryptic

231

Lessons on Stubbornness

232

The Gratification Game

233

The Variation of Variables

234

The Confounding of Compounding

235

Mission Possible

236

A Sure Thing

237

Are you Ready for Your Financial Report Card?

238

Learning How To Fish

239

An Active Debate

240

Shiny Objects

241

A Leading Indicator

242

The Commitment Crisis

243

Cash is Not Always King

244

Temper Your Tantrums

245

Will I Make It?

246

I Worked My Whole Life for This?

247

Expect The Unexpected

248

Portfolio Pick and Roll

249

Why Would I Want to Invest in a Week Like This?

250

The Endurance Sport that is Investing

251

Living Off the Interest

252

Are You Covered?

253

Slow and Steady Is the Way to Go

254

Only Hindsight is 20/20

255

Clarity on Charity

256

Funding Education Doesn't Have to Break The Bank

257

Lessons Learned - A Tale of Two Decades

258

Appreciating Income is the Thing To Do

259

It's Okay to Budge on your Budget

260

'Tis The Season To Be Tax Planning

261

Is it safe to invest when markets are at all-time highs?

262

What Direction Does Your Cash Flow?

263

Investing In Risk

264

How To Enjoy The Fruits of Your Labor

265

Bucking The Trend

266

Keep Your Eye on the Ball

267

What Is The Bottom Line?

268

Pearls of Wisdom, Buying A House, Building Your Own Pension

269

Who is TOM? Trevor Cummings and David L. Bahnsen

270

Introducing Thoughts On Money [TOM]