At The Money: How to Manage Your News & Data Flow

Hi, I'm David Weston. Join me every week for the Wall Street Week podcast to hear stories of capitalism from around the world. From geopolitical tensions and central bank decisions to artificial intelligence, energy, and infrastructure, we sit down with the CEOs, economists, policymakers, and thought leaders whose decisions are shaping markets everywhere we find them. Subscribe to the Wall Street Week podcast on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you listen. The following episode of At the Money was recorded July 2025.

This was before President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica McIntarfer. Please note the conversation was recorded before that departure. I read the news today homeboy. Wall Street relies on data, economic releases, quarterly earnings, performance comparisons, but it's really easy to get tripped up by all of this math. How should investors manage this fire hose of numbers?

To help us navigate this, let's bring in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael Hiltsik. He covers business for the Los Angeles Times. He's a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award and has authored numerous books on business. So, Michael, let's just start with the basics. How do you manage this endless torrent of data that comes our way?

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