Paul wants you to know that one of the most dangerous things you can do is get into a room with an advisor who knows how to manipulate your emotions and sell you a product that gives them high commissions. Today, Paul shares a video where someone is teaching you how to sell annuities, right down to the words to say and body language to use to make you feel safe and consider the product. By learning these tactics, you can learn to spot the difference between financial help and sales.

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Today, Paul talks about cap-weighted funds, a popular method for trying to represent an area of the market through capitalization. Listen along to hear what these funds are, what capitalization means, and why companies call these funds diversified, but leave millions of investors mostly owning a few of America’s largest companies.

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Many Americans experience a similar experience straight out of college. They have hefty student loans and potentially the lowest pay of their entire careers. Today, Paul talks about his experience of first moving to Nashville, walks through a WSJ article about paying off student debt, and shares some of the crazy things people do in their early days to get on the right financial track. He then segues into a conversation about new information on 2026 tax brackets.

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Fund companies, media outlets, and even advisors are constantly vying for your attention to sell you products and services. So how do you learn to cut through the noise and make the decisions that are right for you? In a two-part episode, Paul covers these topics and teaches you how to develop confidence in your financial goals and the plan that will help you get there. Listen along to hear how Nobel Prize-winning strategies can help you understand how goals, plans, and products can all work together to help you feel confident about investing.

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Fund companies, media outlets, and even advisors are constantly vying for your attention to sell you products and services. So how do you learn to cut through the noise and make the decisions that are right for you? In a two-part episode, Paul covers these topics and teaches you how to develop confidence in your financial goals and the plan that will help you get there. Listen along to hear how Nobel Prize-winning strategies can help you understand how goals, plans, and products can all work together to help you feel confident about investing.

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When Paul asks most beginner investors, “What is a financial advisor’s job supposed to be?” he usually gets a familiar answer that involves understanding how markets work, being in the right part of the market at the right time, and knowing the best products to own. Today, Paul reveals that this is actually a lie perpetuated by the financial media, as most people you see weighing in on TV are being paid to be there. Listen along as Paul helps you understand the media bias around timing the market and buying investments after they’ve already gone up.

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Jim Kramer is taking every opportunity to sell young investors on his new book and the idea of “making it big” investing. Listen along as Paul talks about why pundits like this get a lot of airtime even though their advice has historically been a disaster to take.

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