More for Your Money

Episode 36: Investment Styles Unpacked: Value, Growth, and the Highs and Lows of Speculation - 08/30/2025

August 30th, 2025  |  52 mins 50 secs

ai stocks, benjamin graham, bucket shops, capital gains, crypto, discipline, emotional control, financial advice, fomo, great depression, growth stocks, investment strategies, jdb indicator, jesse livermore, jim rogers, john bogle, john marx templeton, long positions, mag 7, market report, market timing, momentum investing, patience, pe multiple, proctor and gamble, retirement accounts, short selling, speculation, stock market, style drifting, tax loss harvesting, technical analysis, trading, value investing, warren buffett, yield curve

Join John Berkley of Uncommon Cents Investing as they share practical financial insights and strategies to help you get more for your money.

Episode 33: The Future of Investing: AI, Productivity Gains, and Portfolio Bonds - 08/09/2025

August 9th, 2025  |  52 mins 50 secs

10-year note, ai applications, ai efficiencies, ai ethics, ai productivity gains, ai safety, ai thinking partner, artificial intelligence (ai), asset classes, asset preservation, bond market fluctuations, bond maturity, bond portfolio, bond rating agencies, bonds, capital gains taxation, cash, cds, chatgpt, client priorities, closed-end investment companies, compliance logs, corporate bonds, credit rating, credit spread, debt monetization, derivatives, equity, etfs, expensive market, federal reserve, fixed income, goldilocks market, google notebook, government bonds, government deficits, gro, growth, high-yield bonds, higher education, household accounts, income, inflation, investment process, investment products, ira bonds, job descriptions, junk bonds, market beta, market pullback, market timing, market update, microsoft copilot, momentum investing, mutual funds, nasdaq, note-taking ai, price-earnings multiple, real interest rates, reversion to the mean, risk in bonds, risk tolerance, risk-return relationship, roth ira, s&p 500, staffing, stocks vs. bonds, traditional ira, us treasury auction, volatility reduction

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Episode 26: Market Valuations, Financial Repression, and the Psychology of Investing - 06/21/2025

June 21st, 2025  |  52 mins 50 secs

artificial intelligence (ai) impact, asset classes, central bank policy, contrarian views, deflation, discipline in investing, economic theories, estate planning, fiduciary standard, financial decisions, financial literacy, financial repression, government debt, income inequality, individual stocks, investment strategy, jeremy siegel, lacy hunt, long-term investing, market timing, market update, money questions, portfolio management, price-earnings multiples, psychology of investing, ray dalio, real estate investing, s&p 500 performance, stock market valuation, structural inflation, value investing, wealth accumulation

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Episode 5: Roth IRA Conversions: The Why, the Why Not, and the Rest of the Story - 01/25/2025

January 25th, 2025  |  52 mins 54 secs

estate planning, irmaa, janesville wi, john berkley, market timing, medical deductions, personal finance, qualified charitable distributions, retirement planning, roth conversion, roth ira, roth vs traditional ira, savers credit, tax strategies, uncommon sense investing

This week on More for Your Money, John Berkley and Kit Carson dive deep into a topic that generates more questions than answers: Roth IRA conversions. Should you convert? When does it make sense—and when does it not? With John's decades of experience and Carson's sharp curiosity, the duo takes listeners through a thoughtful, nuanced look at one of the most misunderstood moves in retirement planning.

Using the classic Paul Harvey style—“the rest of the story”—John highlights the lesser-known risks and hidden pitfalls of converting, like the impact of future tax law changes, state residency, IRMAA brackets, medical expense deductions, charitable giving strategies, and even market timing. And yes, he also shares smart, strategic situations where a Roth conversion does make good sense.