$MCD McDonald's Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $MCD McDonald's Tape Reports — 52 podcast mentions across 14 podcasts (30 days), latest 2026-08-22 00:00 UTC.
Okay. This is just math. I then looked at his real income. Now, real income is how much you spend, how much you give away, and the increase in your wealth. In that year, he had no spending whatsoever. He's a skinflint. He has an old car, eats McDonald's hamburgers, he gets the discount on senior coffee. But he's— I assumed he had no income, no spending. He gave away $2.5 billion to 501s and got all the deductions there for getting his adjusted gross income down to the taxable income. He got the maximum amount of deductions they said he would. He gave away $2.5 billion, mostly to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but to two of his sons, to his daughter, to his wife's foundations. He then had an increase in his wealth because, you know it, because he owns Berkshire Hathaway. You know that is— yeah, that's the one stock he owns and nothing else. Berkshire Hathaway went for his ownership of Berkshire Hathaway went from $40 billion in the year to $50 billion at the end of the year. He had an increase in wealth of $10 billion. So he had a total income in 2010, as he reported it, of $12.5 billion. And he paid $7 million in taxes. That is a tax rate of 0.06% of his income. Because of all the deductions, exemptions, and exclusions in the system. All right. So I am for lowering tax rates like mad and doing a broad-based flat tax, just like I did for Jerry Brown when he ran for president. We lowered the highest rate, the highest income tax rate in America to 13%. We did it.
Dr. Arthur Laffer — Thoughtful Money with Adam Taggart · Despite Big Real Challenges, The Economy Is In Good Shape & Getting Better | Dr. Art Laffer · 2026-08-26Welcome to So Money, everyone. I'm Farnoosh Torabi. You know that moment when you call your bank or you're online with your bank and you check your balance And you discover a balance so low it stops you cold. That happened to me in college at least once. I remember trying to buy something in a store with my debit card and it wouldn't go through. It kept getting denied. I was so confused because I was working so hard that summer. I was actually making some money, but I was also spending as fast as I was earning and not keeping an eye on my balance until it's too late. Got back to my apartment and lo and behold, my balance online was in the negative. And our guest Anthony O'Neill can relate. He had just $6 to his name on a Wednesday night. He needed gas. He was hungry. He ended up cutting 2 McDonald's cheeseburgers in half. That was his food for the next 2 days. He diluted his sweet tea with water to stretch it. And in that moment, eating a cold half burger in his apartment, something shifted in him. He thought, there has to be a better way. Fast forward to his 40th birthday. Anthony's on a private yacht off the coast of Italy. The chef comes out mid-dinner, not just to ask how the fish is, but to offer to catch that same fish again for him tomorrow. And Anthony thought back to that Wednesday night, that half burger, that $6, and he realized he had found the better way. Anthony O'Neill is back on the show today. He is a bestselling author, speaker, and host of The Table with AO. His new book, Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck: The The Proven Path to Break Free from Debt, Build Real Wealth, and Live Free on Any Income is out soon. I gotta tell you, this is not a money book. Anthony will be the first to tell you it's a book about freedom. Here we go. Here's Anthony O'Neill. Anthony O'Neill, my friend, welcome back to So Money, Man.
Farnoosh Torabi — So Money with Farnoosh Torabi · 2027: From $6 to Seven Figures, Anthony O'Neal on the Proven Path to Wealth (Encore) · 2026-08-26Yeah, I mean, you gave me a lot of hints along the way, but isn't that amazing? Oh, so you know, this is the, this is the thing with, this is the thing with technicals and charts. I have a bias about every company I hear about, especially if it's a consumer-facing company. Like, in other words, I have no, I have no bias about let's say we're talking about Micron and Western Digital, 'cause I don't interact with their products. So those are easy for me. I just, it's charts only, right? I look at the earnings growth, I read the analyst comments, and then I look at the price. Those are easy to not have a bias. Walmart and Target, I mean, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, Disney, Netflix, Spotify, impossible not to have a bias, right? You have— you have got to use charts and technicals to tell you when your stupid bias is being laughed at by the people who are actually putting their own money on the line with trades. And so this is why I've— my— almost my entire career, I have just been like a chart and fundamentals person, not one or the other. Because what you saw in that Target chart when it started to outperform Walmart, you might have looked at the stock price and said, Target, what a piece of shit. Because that's how we all, we're all predisposed to make snap judgments. Do you know why that's the case? Not to belabor this, because it's survival. You see a group of people that look dangerous, you turn around and walk the other way. And you live on to pass your genes to the next generation. So these snap judgments that we make in one second where we decide this looks like it's safe to eat, this looks like it might kill me, that's necessary for human life. It works against you in investing. Humanity did not develop, um, its, its survival instincts alongside financial markets. We have 100,000 years of human evolution. We have 400 years of stocks back to Amsterdam, right? So we don't have these built-in mechanisms for no reason. It keeps us alive, right? But it doesn't help when we're thinking about stocks. Oh, I love this company. I hate this product. I like that CEO. What are you, an idiot? How could that possibly work?
Josh Brown — The Compound and Friends · Bubble bursts in 2027, Nvidia earnings preview, Materials sector set-up, AirBnB takes flight · 2026-08-25Well, so, in Melania's defense, Melania didn't want none of this shit. She doesn't. Melania thought she was gonna marry a rich dude who would sit in the corner and eat McDonald's while she go spends his money and bang yacht bros in Monaco on the side. And then you come home and he's talking about, I'm gonna be president because Seth Meyers pissed me off. What? Yeah, that wasn't the deal, Donald. No, Donald.
Roy Wood Jr. — Pivot · Trump vs. Canada, Paramount Settlement Saga, and Melania's Return · 2026-08-25Hey, this is Kevin. This is Joe and Nick Jonas from Hey Jonas. This episode of Hey Jonas is brought to you by the all-new drink lineup at McDonald's. I don't have to tell you that there are already so many great drink options at McDonald's, but the new drink lineup I mean, it takes things to another level. They've got delicious caffeinated refreshers like the Strawberry Watermelon Refresher, crafted sodas like the Sprite Berry Blast, and now the all-new Red Bull Dragon Berry Energizer. We're talking about a total game changer. It's made with Red Bull that's mixed with blue raspberry flavor and topped with freeze-dried dragon fruit.
Speaker C — Bloomberg Intelligence · Alibaba Raises $10 Billion in Record Hong Kong Share Sale · 2026-08-24McDonald's has given us a refreshing new boost for your day. And the Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer is arriving just as you're heading back to the dorms for the fall semester. It's got a boost of energy and a kick of flavor when you need it the most. You know, powering through those lectures and studying sessions, you're going to need it. Kicking the afternoon slump or rallying for the weekend. Try one of the many new drinks like the Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer, also available with Red Bull Zero, now at McDonald's.
Speaker C — Bloomberg Intelligence · Alibaba Raises $10 Billion in Record Hong Kong Share Sale · 2026-08-24Hey, this is Kevin. This is Joe and Nick Jonas from Hey Jonas. This episode of Hey Jonas is brought to you by the all-new drink lineup at McDonald's. I don't have to tell you that there are already so many great drink options at McDonald's, but The new drink lineup, I mean, it takes things to another level. They've got delicious caffeinated refreshers like the Strawberry Watermelon Refresher, crafted sodas like the Sprite Berry Blast, and now the all-new Red Bull Dragon Berry Energizer. We're talking about a total game changer. It's made with Red Bull, that's mixed with blue raspberry flavor and topped with freeze-dried dragon fruit.
Speaker C — Bloomberg Intelligence · Alibaba Raises $10 Billion in Record Hong Kong Share Sale · 2026-08-24McDonald's has given us a refreshing new boost for your day. And the Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer is arriving just as you're heading back to the dorms for the fall semester. It's got a boost of energy and a kick of flavor when you need it the most. You know, powering through those lectures and studying sessions, you're gonna need it. Kicking the afternoon slump or rallying for the weekend. Try one of the many new drinks like the Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer, also available with Red Bull Zero, now at McDonald's.
Speaker C — Bloomberg Intelligence · Alibaba Raises $10 Billion in Record Hong Kong Share Sale · 2026-08-24