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Podcast: Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Episode: It IS Gambling
Description: Don goes solo this week and covers the wild state of “investing” in 2025 — including single-stock ETFs, leveraged funds, and zero-day options that look more like gambling than investing. He answers listener questions about Roth strategies for kids, aggressive long-term allocations, finding fiduciary advisors, dealing with inherited stock portfolios, and the ethics and fees of big Wall Street firms. Plus, he fields questions about new tax-focused ETFs and whether complicated multi-fund factor strategies are really worth the trouble.
0:04 Don jokes about ChatGPT replacing him, welcomes listeners
1:53 Today’s topic: 30% of new ETFs are tied to single stocks —...