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High school senior Robert King uses a laptop at the Stevens Center.

Stevens Center unveils app made for teens, by teens

For over a year, 35 high school students who are interns at the Center developed an app that helps college-bound adolescents calculate the cost of higher education.

Government shutdown halts economic data for Wall Street

At the 1-hour-12-minute mark of “Bloomberg Markets: The Close,” Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School discusses the potential economic ramifications of a government shutdown.

How a government shutdown could disrupt home sales

A 2017 analysis from the Wharton School found that more than half of the federal flood insurance program’s policies were concentrated in roughly 1% of U.S. counties with high flood risk.

Arm and Instacart’s splashy IPOs won’t be enough to revive a market in a slump reminiscent of the dot-com bust

David Erickson of the Wharton School says that the current IPO landscape reminds him of the landscape following the dot-com bust.

Graph of stock market trends rising and plateauing.

Why stock valuation hinges more on returns than future earnings

Growth stocks don’t generate the long-term returns that would justify their high multiples, according to the 2023 Jacobs Levy Center’s “Best Paper” co-authored by the Wharton School’s Sean Myers.

Four million have enrolled in Biden’s new student loan repayment plan

The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that the Save student loan repayment plan will cost as much as $558 billion over a 10-year period.

Valuation metrics that will make you a better investor

David Wessels of the Wharton School explains why calculating enterprise value from earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization is a useful valuation metric.

At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed

Wayne Guay of the Wharton School says that Axon’s stock plan was aggressive in its targets and covered an unusually long period, making it riskier for younger, often highly mobile employees.

Rising insurance costs start to hit home sales

A Wharton School study finds that on average, 30% of homes have flood insurance policies in high-risk areas.

How a home mortgage ‘lock in’ impacts the entire housing market

A paper co-authored by Lu Liu of the Wharton School finds that moving rates go down by 9% for every percentage-point increase in mortgage rates.

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