• Japan plan: Will the global effect of the country's monetary policy be good or bad for the rest of the globe? Yahoo! Finance's "Hot Stock Minute" host Lauren Lyster discusses the likely outcome with Yahoo! Finance Senior Columnist Mike Santoli. The two also talk about the likelihood of a stock market pullback.

  • The S&P 500 ends a five-day record setting run after falling 0.4% to 1,626. The major economic news of the day came from the Labor Department reporting weekly jobless claims hit a new 5-year low last week, falling to 323,000.

    Tesla (TSLA) electrified Wall Street today. Shares soared 28% hitting a new record high. Consumer Reports has given the company's Model S sedan a score of 99 out of 100. The magazine says the car will have bugs because it is so new, but still deserves the highest score of any vehicle tested. The rating comes just hours after Tesla reported its quarterly earnings. Tesla recently revealed they'd be posting a profit for the first time ever. But a new leasing program has juiced interest in the Model S beyond expectations.

    Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) piqued the interest of investors, climbing 28% in response to its earnings report. Not only did the company easily beat estimates for net income, it also announced a new 5-year deal with Starbucks (SBUX). Under

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  • There's a crazy game that kids play where they try to pick which hypothetical travesty or torture would be preferable. A typical quandary might ask if you would rather "be run over by a steam roller or stung by 1,000 bees." In reality, neither choice is desirable but that's not the point of the game.

    Along those lines, I posed a similar line of questions to Patrick Wolff, chief investment officer at Grandmaster Capital, on the sidelines of the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) shareholder meeting in Omaha, where he was a spectator and performer, showing off his skills playing blindfolded chess against six players at once.

    From his viewpoint, Wolff is far less concerned about the Fed extracting itself from its quantitative easing "experiment" than he is about the risks lurking within the world's second-largest economy.

    "I'm no too worried about it," Wolff says in the attached video of the Fed's easy money policy; a policy that Warren Buffett refers to as a ''huge experiment." "If and when the U.S. economy really comes roaring back the Fed (will have) lots of ways to tighten appropriately."

    On China, however, Wolff is blunt.

    "My own view is that China's economy is in a bubble," he says, referring to the fast-growing Asian nation as "a dangerous place" to invest that is likely "to end very, very badly."

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  • Just Explain It: Why Does A College Education Cost So Much?

    It’s more expensive now than ever before to send your son or daughter to college. So in order to stay attractive, some universities are beginning to offer tuition discounts. But providing more financial aid to incoming students doesn’t hide the fact that college costs are still very high.

    Out-of-state full-time students who attended public four-year colleges felt it in their wallets. On average they paid almost $22,000 in tuition and fees this school year. In-state undergrads did a little better. They shelled out just over $8,600.

    According to the College Board, in-state students faced an average tuition increase of $400 from last year. On top of that, room and board charges jumped by $325.

    Related: Only 150 of 3500 U.S. Colleges Are Worth the Investment: Former Secretary of Education

    But, a recent National Association of College and University Business Officers survey found that last fall many colleges offered an average of 45% off tuition for incoming freshman. That’s more than

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