Lights of Hope @ Brewster Gardens

Friday, December 6th  6:30-8:30 pm
Luminaries are $5 each and can be purchase at PSHS and night of event.

CHRISTMAS IN PLYMOUTH: Lights of Hope

Formal Friday! PSHS DECA Students Promoting 11/21 Fashion Talent Show

Sophomores Dillon Slattery and Ben Kotce

Sophomores Carly Bishop, Luke Goldring, Lindsey Ward, Finn McKee, Sarah Eaton, Greg Pappas, Tom Gallerani, Olivia Morrow, and Valerie Tarr

Juniors Leanne Anderson, Kaleigh Redington, Alyssa Richard, Kailee Taylor, Drew Guadagno, and Chris McDonnell

Seniors Greg O'Brien and Dan Broderick

Ready, Set, Go!

DECA IDEA CHALLENGE

Mystery Item Reveal!

And now…
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here - the reveal of the DECA Idea Challenge 2013 mystery item! As a featured event of Global Entrepreneurship week, we’re asking student teams around the globe to create an innovative, new use for a common, everyday item.
So without further ado, this year’s mystery item is:

Aluminum Beverage Can

How can you use an aluminum beverage can to create value while being feasible and sustainable?
Download the DECA IDEA Challenge toolkit
How to Get Started:

1. Organize a student team of three to four individuals. DECA membership is not a requirement to participate.
2. Create an innovative, new use for the item. There is no limit on the quantity of items used for your new idea.
3. Craft a three-minute video presentation explaining and demonstrating your new use for the challenge item and post it to YouTube.
4. Complete the DECA Idea Challenge 2013 online submission form containing your YouTube video URL no later than 6:00 p.m. EST on November 22.

Recognition and More!
The DECA Idea Challenge 2013 global winner will be announced on December 12, 2013.
The global winning team will receive $1,000, as well as recognition on both the DECA Inc. and Global Entrepreneurship Week! The finalist team from the United States will be recognized at DECA’s International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Atlanta, Ga., or Collegiate DECA’s ICDC in Washington, D.C.
For more information on the competition, such as how to participate and how entries will be evaluated, download the official DECA Idea Challenge 2013 Toolkit found at www.unleashingideas.org/challenge. The DECA Idea Challenge 2013 is here and the clock is ticking, so get started on your innovative creation today!

http://www.gew.co/challenge

Are You Ready for the Idea Challenge?

Check it out at 12:01 am tonight!
www.unleashingideas.org/challenge

November Coffee Corner

November Coffee Schedule!

Please arrive promptly at 6:50 &

expect to stay until 7:15

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	4 Lindsey Ward Amanda Ward Dillon Slattery	5 Keegan Killory Finn McKee Patience Machalby	6 Luke Goldring Luke Goldring Jess Hayward Carly Bishop	7 Olivia Morrow Gregory Pappas Brooke Ballinger	8 Shanlea Kernen Leanne Anderson Jesse Parks
	11 NO SCHOOL	12 Nate Benjamin Dan Broderick Greg O’Brien	13 Lindsey Ward Amanda Ward Dillon Slattery	14 Keegan Killory Finn McKee Patience Machalby	15 Luke Goldring Jess Hayward Carly Bishop
	18 Olivia Morrow Gregory Pappas Brooke Ballinger	19 Shanlea Kernen Leanne Anderson Jesse Parks	20 Nate Benjamin Dan Broderick Greg O’Brien	21 Keegan Killory Finn McKee Patience Machalby	22 Lindsey Ward Amanda Ward Dillon Slattery
	25 Luke Goldring Jess Hayward Carly Bishop	26 Olivia Morrow Gregory Pappas Brooke Ballinger	27 Shanlea Kernen Leanne Anderson Jesse Parks	28 THANKS       NO	29 GIVING! SCHOOL

Stock Market Game - Week in Review

Dear Teachers and Stock Market Game Participants:

On Halloween Eve, 75 years ago, the little town of Grovers Mill, NJ unexpectedly earned a spot in broadcast history when Orson Welles and the CBS Mercury Theatre landed Martian invaders in its backyard. The fictitious invaders caused a real world panic. According to USA Today’s Chris Jordan: “In 1938, the United States was a country on edge due to years of economic depression and the winds of war swirling in Europe.” Peter Genovese at NJ.com says that Orson Welles “brilliantly tapped into a considerable national neurosis.”

This Halloween Eve, the fear was not little green man but little “greenbacks” as investors worried about the Fed tapering its quantitative easing (QE) policy. Since 2008, the Federal Reserve has been purchasing billions of dollars of long-term bonds in an effort to stimulate the economy. The October 23, 2012 issue of our In the News newsletter, “Dr. B and the QE Medicine”, describes how quantitative easing works. It is available in the Publications section of The Stock Market Game’s Teacher Support Center. Another good explanation can be found in this Investopedia video: http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/quantitative-easing/.

Now in its fifth year, most investors expect the Fed to cut back (or taper) its bond buying. However, it is when the Fed will do this that has investors anxious. While the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, did not mention tapering in his statement this week, the fear of tapering was enough to end an S&P 500 winning streak and cause the Dow to drop 100 points.

But it is not just the tapering that has investors scared. In his Wall Street Journal blog, Michael J. Casey cites speculation over new Fed Chair, Janet Yellen, and the debt ceiling debate as additional causes:

We can expect Ms. Yellen to get some tough questioning about her political and policy views. Is she really going to want to come across as a dovish softy? If she’s asked whether it’s still possible that the Fed could taper its bond-buying in December, what is she going to say? With a completely straight face, she will honestly reply that, yes, it is possible… Of course, that will set off investor speculation. Did she mean it? Was this a political move or should we prepare for a pullback in the market?

Another thing that had investors leaving the lights on and trembling under their bed sheets this Halloween was the notion that the QE had inadvertently created “bubble markets” (overvalued markets). Share our February 18, 2003 StockTalk newsletter, “Pop!”, with your students to explain market bubbles to them. It is available in the Publications section of the Teacher Support Center.

CNBC’s Katie Holliday quotes Michael Gayed, chief investment strategist at Pension Partners:

"You are seeing fairly sizable inflows into equities - the most since 2000, yet inflation expectations are still not trending up... [It] now appears to be the start of a potential bubble given how far U.S. equities have diverged from the underlying economy, inflation expectations and the overall reality of where we are in the economic cycle."

Among the warning signs of a bubble, Gayed points out “the recent poor performance of U.S. small caps, strong appetite for defensive sectors and the fact that bond yields were not rising in a way that suggests the stock market is right about the future."

However, Holliday points out that

Gayed also told CNBC that the Fed's "power of words" which has been demonstrated by the huge impact its use of the word 'taper' has had on markets could give the central bank the ability to prevent a severe correction.

Do you share Gayed’s faith in the “power of words”? If a market correction (a situation where according to Investopedia “a stock, bond, commodity or index to adjust for an overvaluation.”) occurs, will the Fed’s choice of vocabulary be able to taper the severity of it? We saw how powerful words could be in 1938 when a radio show caused panic in the Grovers Mill.


Vincent YoungAssistant Vice President, Curriculum Initiatives
SIFMA Foundation

Phone: 212-313-1296
vyoung@sifma.org