Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Talking Real Money - Investing Talk
Don McDonald
Information Overload
32 minutes Posted Jul 15, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
News and Market Bias
Efficient Markets Debate
Bad News Travels Slowly
Skeptical of Headlines
Retirement Bridge Planning
AVTM Versus AVGE
Tilting Toward Value
Back for Questions
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Can keeping up with financial news actually make you a better investor—or just make you more confident about making bad decisions? Don and Tom dig into research on how markets react to news, why investors tend to overreact to splashy stories and underreact to boring numbers, and whether sophisticated traders can actually exploit those inefficiencies. Then, a caller nearing retirement asks how to build a conservative brokerage account to bridge the years before Social Security. Plus, the guys ...