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Investing 1: The Stock Market & Penelope The Cow

Planet Money Summer School

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How Do You Guess the Weight of a Cow?

In the stock market, thousands of people bidding on stocks based on how much they think it's worth. The price is a good reflection of how good the company is and how well you can expect it to perform in the future. But what if the price is higher than that or lower than that? How does that distort the process? And we've got another money experiment I right up when class continues.

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