The potential perils of pursuing high yields.

A recent article by John Waggoner in Kiplinger's Personal Finance shares various ways you can create income from your portfolio. While the article tends to downplay the level of risk an investor might face overall, it fails miserably when it comes to discussing the outsized risk from a number of very high-yielding investments. Don takes one of them apart.

Plus, a listener wonders if there are higher yielding investments that bank money markets with similar safety and liquidity.