The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Why You Can't Walk Away
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Sunk Cost Fallacy is a psychological trap that tricks rational investors and leaders into throwing good money after bad. We will break down the story.
Today's Stocks & Topics: Fox Factory Holding Corp. (FOXF), Market Wrap, Albemarle Corporation (ALB), The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Why You Can't Walk Away, Paying Mortgage vs. Investing, Diamondback Energy, Inc. (FANG), Centene Corporation (CNC), A-I Data Centers, Target Corporation (TGT), First Majestic Silver Corp. (AG), New York Real Estate.
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| 0:00.0 | On radio, on YouTube, streaming live on invest talk.com, and for our podcast subscribers, this is InvestTalk. Incependent Thinking, shared success. |
| 0:17.7 | InvestTalk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, serving clients throughout the United States. |
| 0:27.1 | Here is KPP Financial Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor, Justin Klein. |
| 0:36.6 | Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to Invest talk. |
| 0:40.8 | This is our Monday, September 29th, 2025 edition of Invest talk. |
| 0:46.5 | And yep, that's right. |
| 0:47.5 | There's only one more trading day left in the third quarter. |
| 0:53.0 | What a year it's been? |
| 0:53.8 | It's been a year of twists and turns and ups |
| 0:57.5 | and downs. A lot of headlines, that's for sure. And really, it's been a good year. You have to |
| 1:06.9 | say that in general for equities, asset prices, you still have credit markets under |
| 1:13.2 | control, you have banks lending, you have profits rising. So it shouldn't be a shock that we |
| 1:21.8 | are positive on the year, but we are heading into fourth quarter and then in the 2026. |
| 1:29.6 | So every quarter is different. |
| 1:31.9 | Every year is certainly different as well. |
| 1:36.7 | So we'll start ramping up for next year very, very soon. |
| 1:38.2 | Now, I'm Justin Klein. |
| 1:42.6 | The objective of today's show is to help you become a better investor, |
| 1:45.5 | answering your finance and investment questions, |
| 1:52.2 | giving you data and perspective that can help you make better decisions with your money. |
| 1:53.7 | It's simple as that. |
| 1:57.1 | So this hour is dedicated to your journey. |
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