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Thoughts On Money [TOM] — 276 episodes

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1

Trump Accounts: Game-Changer or Gimmick?

2

Food for Thought - The Economics of Eating

3

A Financial Planning Superpower

4

35,000 Feet & The Things That Matter

5

The Jetsons vs. The Terminator - The Two Visions of Artificial Intelligence

6

Financial Framework for Graduates

7

Not an Exact Science

8

Ten-Dollar Finance Words

9

The Next Bear Market

10

If You Could Ask Just One Question

11

Room for Life

12

Was Jesus a Socialist?

13

What Kind of Spending Makes Us Happy?

14

American Debtmageddon

15

Convictions > Confirmity

16

Shortcuts, Head Starts, and Changing Lanes

17

Opting For Wisdom: Options Trading Basics

18

Are Your Market Expectations Realistic?

19

Investment Du Jour

20

Five Home Financing Hacks

21

Small-Cap Stocks are on a Tear!

22

Making Financial Decisions

23

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

24

You Need to Be Bored

25

Looking for Wisdom in a World of Artificial Intelligence

26

An Overview on Credit Scores

27

Kyle Busch v. Pacific Life

28

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

29

Purpose Driven Planning – End of Year Conversations

30

Be a Tell-Me-More Investor

31

Three Unrelated Pieces of Advice

32

The Mirror We Don’t Like to Look In

33

Abnormal Returns

34

Taxes & Fees

35

Is Your Portfolio Keeping Up with Inflation?

36

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Charts

37

AI BS

38

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce - Money and Marriage

39

The Boys in the Boat

40

It's What You Know for Sure...

41

The Stock Market and the Casino

42

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

43

Write Off the Sunset: Planning Around the OBBBA

44

T.O.E. (Thoughts On Expenses)

45

Cautiously Pessimistic

46

Mid-Year Money Check-In

47

Roth Conversion Tax Traps

48

Why You Need to Understand Duration

49

Overwhelmed By Options

50

Unforced Errors

51

Compounding Growth

52

Nobody Knows Everything

53

Surplus, Steady, and Sinking – Three Types of Retirement

54

Why Dividend Growth?

55

Surviving These Markets

56

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

57

For Simplicity’s Sake

58

The Prodigal Son

59

Mind the Gap

60

Taking Inventory of Your Cash

61

Answering Your Questions - Part 4

62

Answering Your Questions - Part 3

63

Answering Your Questions - Part 2

64

Answering Your Questions - Part 1

65

Should I Own Bonds?

66

Oversold & Underserved

67

Prepare for the Worst

68

Simple Advice to Start out the New Year

69

The Heart of Financial Advice

70

Understanding Average Returns

71

The Official End of Year Checklist

72

Future Stock Returns - Revisited

73

The Secret to Financial Serenity

74

Saving on Taxes

75

Returns Over the Next 10 Years

76

Can You Afford It?

77

Don't Believe the Lies

78

The Line and The Circle – Spending in Retirement

79

Eating Elephants

80

You've Got to Be Kidding Me

81

Dollar-Cost-Averaging

82

What To Expect When You're Expecting

83

Playing with House Money

84

Financial Milestones

85

Opportunity Costs

86

Personal Finance 101

87

Next to Godliness

88

Who's the Boss?

89

Knowledge is Power

90

Declaration of Financial Independence

91

A Feature, Not a Bug

92

Who's On Your Team?

93

What Goes Up Must Come Down?

94

The Playtpus

95

Records are Made to be Broken

96

Avoiding Big Mistakes

97

Summer Work

98

The New Lost Decade

99

It’s All About What You Keep

100

Goldie Rocks and The Permabears

101

Retirement Line Dancing

102

Diversification Via Dividends

103

Not If, But When

104

Financial Aerodynamics

105

Leverage: Amplifying Outcomes

106

When You Don't Get What You Pay For

107

The Allocators Cookbook

108

In The Absence of Truth

109

Rainy Days

110

Gone Fishing

111

What is Risk Anyway?

112

The Power of Simplicity

113

A New Who

114

New Year's Resolutions

115

Returns of a Jedi

116

And Then What?

117

Distracted by the What

118

From Confusion to Clarity

119

A Capitulation Situation

120

Circle of Competence

121

When it Hits Close to Home

122

Flaw Less

123

Tools for Decision-Making

124

Beyond the Numbers

125

Results Driven

126

Speculators Galore

127

The Project Checklist

128

Stay in Your Lane

129

Leave a Legacy

130

Low Hanging Fruit

131

It Ain't What You Don't Know

132

The Road to Flourishing

133

Ask Trevor

134

Your Greatest Asset

135

Financial Heirlooms

136

Educating the Next Generation

137

Health Insurance and I are not friends

138

Pizza Dough and Roth Conversions

139

Don't Be a Fair Weather Fan!

140

Planning for Leftovers

141

The Only Thing We Have to Fear

142

Spending Matters Most

143

Solving the Puzzle of Your Financial Picture

144

The Art of Earmarking

145

Finding Financial Freedom

146

Why It's Sometimes OK to Underperform - Revisited

147

Chihuahua Markets

148

Lessons from SVB

149

Too Good To Be True

150

FOMO on Interest

151

Magnify Revisted

152

False Alarms

153

Fool's Gold

154

Who's Got Your Ear?

155

Respecting Time Horizons

156

A Tale of Two Brothers

157

Experiencing Turbulence

158

Just One Word

159

The Index Card

160

Turkey Time Temptations

161

The Conversion Conversation

162

Historical Precedent

163

Informed Precision

164

What Are You Aiming At?

165

Return On Stress

166

Fo-evah!

167

Bingo, Bango, Bongo!

168

Timing Isn't Everything

169

Portfolio By Design

170

Storm Chasers

171

Permission to Transact

172

It's All a Bunch of Pooh

173

On The Contrary

174

Digesting The DC Today

175

Expense Based Planning - Revisited

176

Quite Interesting

177

Weighing Your Options

178

Figuring Out Your Finances

179

Hodgepodge and Potpourri – Part Two

180

Hodgepodge and Potpourri

181

Weathering a Recession

182

Timing is Everything

183

Going Through Withdrawals

184

Bondtastrophe

185

Peaking Interest

186

Should I Give a Bit?

187

The Dream Team

188

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

189

Staring Down A Lion, Again...

190

Misunderstood

191

I Was... Wrong.

192

The "Stock Market"

193

Sound the Alarm!

194

Prudent Debt

195

Practical Applications

196

Practical Hedges

197

Great Expectations

198

Getting Sandwiched

199

Fast Times

200

A Fly On The Wall

201

Home Sweet Home

202

What's the Alternative?

203

Apples and Oranges

204

Care to Be Aware

205

An Appetite for Risk

206

What's Next?

207

Life's Obstacles

208

All Time Lies

209

Benchmarking

210

The Sirens of Finance

211

Sky Diving and Safaris

212

Time is On Your Side

213

Reflections

214

Moving the Ball Down the Field

215

An Inflation Irritation

216

Liquidity Ambiguity

217

Dumbfounded by Diversification

218

The Leftovers

219

No Surprises

220

Financial Siblings

221

Cloning Your Money

222

Financial Cravings

223

The Madness of Methods

224

For the Love of the Game

225

When It Rains, It Pours

226

Lost in Translation

227

Eat Your Own Cooking

228

Trust is a Must

229

The Aroma of Euphoria

230

Tailored Fit

231

Unknowable

232

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

233

DIY YI YI

234

Easier Said Than Done

235

More Than Numbers

236

Completely Cryptic

237

Lessons on Stubbornness

238

The Gratification Game

239

The Variation of Variables

240

The Confounding of Compounding

241

Mission Possible

242

A Sure Thing

243

Are you Ready for Your Financial Report Card?

244

Learning How To Fish

245

An Active Debate

246

Shiny Objects

247

A Leading Indicator

248

The Commitment Crisis

249

Cash is Not Always King

250

Temper Your Tantrums

251

Will I Make It?

252

I Worked My Whole Life for This?

253

Expect The Unexpected

254

Portfolio Pick and Roll

255

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

256

The Endurance Sport that is Investing

257

Living Off the Interest

258

Are You Covered?

259

Slow and Steady Is the Way to Go

260

Only Hindsight is 20/20

261

Clarity on Charity

262

Funding Education Doesn't Have to Break The Bank

263

Lessons Learned - A Tale of Two Decades

264

Appreciating Income is the Thing To Do

265

It's Okay to Budge on your Budget

266

'Tis The Season To Be Tax Planning

267

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

268

What Direction Does Your Cash Flow?

269

Investing In Risk

270

How To Enjoy The Fruits of Your Labor

271

Bucking The Trend

272

Keep Your Eye on the Ball

273

What Is The Bottom Line?

274

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

275

Who is TOM? Trevor Cummings and David L. Bahnsen

276

Introducing Thoughts On Money [TOM]