Mar 24, 2018

What I'm Reading This Weekend (March 24-25)

A day late but certainly worth the read. More great articles curated by Beth:

What I’m reading this week (March 24-25)

The Economy and Investing

Technology

Move over bitcoin – looks like FB and UBER will be in the news for awhile

For Our Students

Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, estimates about 5 percent of seniors who want to go to college fall into this category.

  • Did any of your seniors write a college essay on money? If so, check this out!
    • Editor's note: we extended the PAYBACK Challenge by a week to March 30th. Easy peasy: students play PAYBACK (www.timeforpayback.com), write 250-word essays and the teacher picks best one and emails to essays@ngpf.org. More details here

Life

If you can tell a good enough story, you can raise someone’s expectations (i.e. reduce their discount rate) and, thus, increase their willingness to pay for something. You didn’t change earnings growth. You didn’t change management. You didn’t change strategies. You just told a better story.

In case you missed our recent announcement about our partnership with Visual Capitalist, here is one of the first infographics with our Wealth 101 project

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