A pedestrian walks past the Toronto Stock Exchange in Toronto’s Financial District. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post files

Will the U.S. government shutdown shake the foundations of the stock market? Are stock market bubble fears justified? And was the selloff in Constellation Software’s stocks justified? The Financial Post explores those stories and more in The Week in Stocks.

Stock of the week: Lithium Americas Corp.

Shares of Vancouver-based Lithium Americas Corp. (TSX: LAC) spiked on Oct. 1 after the miner announced an agreement for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to acquire a five per cent equity stake in the company, plus a five per cent stake in its Thacker Pass lithium joint venture with General Motors Co. in Nevada. This allows LAC to get an advance of about US$

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