Calculating Your Future

About this episode

Don and Tom discuss a financial decision-making quiz and answer listener questions about retirement and debt management.

Don and Tom tackle a Wall Street Journal financial decision-making quiz that explores how to prioritize competing goals such as retirement savings, high-interest debt, mortgages, and student loans. The discussion highlights the importance of employer matching contributions, the damaging impact of credit card debt, and the reality that many financial decisions depend on individual circumstances and risk tolerance. They then answer listener questions about retirement portfolio allocation, Fishe...

People in this episode

Host: Don McDonald

Guest: Tom

Topics covered

• financial decision-making
• retirement savings
• debt management
• portfolio allocation
• listener questions

Keywords

• financial quiz
• retirement
• debt
• mortgages
• student loans
• credit card debt
• portfolio allocation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wall Street Journal

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