[Companies buying back stock NOW]

there's been some recent insider buying at UPWK, FTDR, OFIX, and VRNS

[Companies affected by the Gov shutdown]

FSCT - $1.2 billion cybersecurity company with ~25-30% of its revenues coming from the government vertical. while it won't impact Q4 results, it could cause a deceleration from the company's 20% p.a. revenue growth going into 1Q19.

[Mindware - Richard Nisbett]

Mindware, Tools for Smart Thinking

This is among the absolute best books on how to think.  It is brilliant, simply brilliant.  Nisbett is a psychology professor at U. Michigan. (Not that it matters, but he is one of the most distinguished psychologists in the world.)

 

Totally agree. One of the best books I've read recently. A lot in common with Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow (which I also highly recommend). Easy to understand concepts that are applicable in many facets of life.