About this episode

Tom quizzes Don on personal finance topics in a fun and engaging format.

In what may be our last quiz, ever, Tom turns the tables and puts Don in the hot seat with a Wall Street Journal high-school personal finance quiz—covering the Magnificent Seven, Roth IRAs, TIPS, efficient markets, yield curves, market risk, and dollar-cost averaging. Don does reasonably well, but not without protesting a dubious “debt avalanche” question and getting tangled up in a couple of accounting and risk terms. After the quiz-show nonsense, the guys tackle a listener question from Jos...

People in this episode

Host: Don

Guest: Tom

Topics covered

• personal finance
• quizzes
• investing
• Roth IRAs
• market risk
• dollar-cost averaging

Keywords

• Magnificent Seven
• Roth IRAs
• TIPS
• efficient markets
• yield curves
• debt avalanche
• dollar-cost averaging

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Organizations: Wall Street Journal

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