Happy Tuesday, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories:
Personal Finance Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has $7,000 in savings — and that’s more than double most millennials
Pundits have criticized her modest savings, but many young people are impressed.
Why you don’t want to serve romaine this Thanksgiving
The CDC has warned against eating the popular lettuce due to an E. coli outbreak.
How student-loan debt affects the rest of your life (it’s not pretty)
New survey shows the human toll, forcing many to pay more for education bills than necessities.
Hackers will impersonate your favorite brands this holiday season — tips for safe shopping
While you shop for the best deals, keep an eye out for scammers.
Why Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion Johns Hopkins donation won’t transform college affordability
Officials in Tennessee set aside $350 million to make community college free for that entire state.
My wife drinks too much, drives with our 7-year-old son and now wants a divorce
How can you keep a child safe before a bitter divorce?
Millennials who live at home with their parents pay higher car-insurance premiums
Insurers deem them a higher risk, observers say.
Americans spent over $3 billion last year fixing their smartphone screens
Some states have considered ‘right-to-repair’ legislation allowing consumers to repair their own phones without violating their warranties.
10 ways to save a lot of money — even if you’re not a high earner
Low earners need to be efficient and creative.
6 things NOT to buy on Black Friday
Use this guide to skip the duds and get only the best bargains.
Elsewhere on MarketWatch Secret political spending on track to reach $1 billion milestone
“Dark money” remains far from becoming dominant, but it keeps spooking researchers, lawmakers and activists. And this political spending by groups that don’t disclose their donors is close to hitting a big round number.
White House makes case for environmental rollbacks to fight forest fires
The White House on Tuesday made a push for what it calls “forest management” legislation to be included in the farm bill, with two cabinet secretaries making the case that environmental rollbacks were necessary to prevent future fires like the ones engulfing California.
American homeownership increases again as housing market looks for balance
The national homeownership rate ticked up again even as home price growth moderated, a signal that some Americans have been able to take advantage of easing conditions and become owners.
Leaving Los Angeles: What the new exodus inland tells us
As home affordability erodes, more people are leaving California’s coast for cheaper living inland, in an eerie echo of the mid-aughties housing bubble. But people have always migrated from - and to - the coasts, and one economist thinks it’s not a sign of a problem.
How to protect your money like the Forbes 400-richest Americans
Keep purchasing power and don’t take excessive risk with stocks, writes Mark Hulbert.
Why share buybacks aren’t the stock market’s safety net
The end of earnings-season blackout periods on buyouts isn’t the pillar of support bulls had hoped it would be.
This Apple true believer just sold all of his firm’s shares
Slower growth, mature products, and faster competition pressure Apple stock, writes Vitaliy Katsenelson.
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