Stock Market Game Week in Review

The Stock Market Game is a curriculum-based teaching tool that allows students to invest a hypothetical $100,000 online stock portfolio to learn about long-term saving and investing.

Regardless of whether you voted for Barack Obama, his victory this week is truly historic. While the jubilation in the streets in many cities was comparable to New Year's Eve celebrations, Obama will inherit an economic mess when he enters the White House in late January.

Unemployment is front and center again this week as payrolls shrunk by 240,000 in October, bringing the total number of jobs lost in 2008 to 1.2 million. Despite the release of the unemployment data, Wall Street rallied Friday as investors took advantage of gains from a big selloff earlier in the week.

Stocks plunged in the two sessions following Obama's victory, with the Dow losing 929 points, its biggest two-day point decline ever, according to Dow Jones. The decline followed what some analysts consider to be a classic bear-market rally -- an 18% surge on the S&P 500 in the seven trading sessions through the election. ...