Personal Finance

• Michele Singletary at WAPO talks about the importance of getting kids to be financially literate and what parents can do to promote this. The article features JumpStart and checkmyschool.org.
• Personal Finance on an Index Card: from Harold Pollack. (University of Chicago)

• This one got lots of social media coverage: NFL player teaches finlit at an Ivy League School! (WSJ)
• Some sound advice suggesting quarterly money reviews with your S.O. and how to conduct them. (rereads)
• The majority of millennials’ debt is student loans (no big surprise here….just the numbers). (Bloomberg)

Insurance

• It might help to have insurance, but know what your policy covers and what is not. (MarketWatch)
• Here is some advice on how to get those car insurance rates down. (Simple Dollar)
• Students heading to college need to beware of short-term health insurance policies. (Inside Higher Ed)
• Check out the new materials that are part of the NGPF mini-release on Insurance!

Investing

• This one gets a little technical, but it explains why ETF’s are more tax efficient than mutual funds. (Morningstar)
• Are “free” trading platforms actually free? (Quartz)
• Kraft/Heinz has had a run of bad news, and Warren Buffet has taken some heat for his position in the company. (Aswath Damordaran-Prof at Stern School of Business-NYU)
• I noticed this cool chart in one of my news feeds (Ritholz). 

Economics

• What are economists predicting about the timing of the next recession? (Bloomberg)
• The job market is hot. How should one prepare for a downturn.?(WSJ)

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