Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving! For those of you NOT involved in Black Friday Shopping, here is some light reading you might enjoy if you aren't up for football!

Investing

• Tech stocks have taken a big hit in this “market correction.” There are some great graphical representations about tech stock market capitalization here. (WSJ)
  • Here is the Visual Capitalist Chart of the Week with a different view of FAANG stocks in the bear market.
• What are Value Investors now thinking about it all? (Fortune)
• Markets are dropping and one investor explains why he keeps buying stocks. (NY Times)
• Lots of people are cutting the cable (one million last quarter!)—what will cable companies do now? (WSJ)
• Vanguard lowers minimum investment requirement on their exclusive Admiral funds (which have much lower fees than their tradition funds). (WSJ)

Debt

• Here is a really scary debt story: use it as a cautionary tale. Reading it is like watching a train wreck...you can't look away! (Wealth Simple)

  Student Loans

• The grace period is about to end on student loans for Spring 2018 graduates. (NY Times)
• Follow up to article last week on the benefits of borrowing in some cases – here is the actual article on the study in Education Next.

Personal Finance

The New York Times had an entire section last Sunday on many financial topics. Here are several of the most relevant:

• Will the new company Zero Financial be the answer to our credit management?
• How widows are finding financial independence.
• Buying a home is likely the biggest investment you will make, and most decide it after spending only a few hours in a home. How about trying it out BEFORE you buy it?
• More advice on the age-old decision whether to lease or buy a home.
• Also in this New York Times section on Sunday were couple of interesting articles related to parenting and money.
  • "How and When to Talk to your Kids About Money,"
  • and "How Parents Teach Smart Spending with Smartphone Apps, Not Cash"

For Teachers

Want to listen to some short podcasts? How about these Inside Higher Education “Academic Minute” articles that may be relevant for your students? You can also read the transcript, and if you like them, you can sign up to receive them daily.

• Teens and Caffeine
• Bragging and Modesty on Social Media

Technology

• Here is a great graphic from Visual Capitalist that might open your students’ eyes (and yours) about who knows what about you!!!

Graph of the Week:

After November market woes….will we have a “Santa Claus Rally” in December? Here is the MarketWatch article behind the graph.

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