Financial Education
If you wanted your child to learn how to play baseball, who would be the ideal teacher?
You: Dustin Pedroia.
Okay, I love how the guy plays the game, but let’s just say his current professional career makes him unavailable to teach your kid for the next 20 years.
You: Darn.
Realistically, who would you want to teach your [...]
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Of all the articles in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, I most enjoyed Moneymonk’s Why American’s Don’t Save. Perhaps because it reminded me of a post I wrote long ago, Top 10 Excuses For Not Saving, but also because it was an excellent reminder of being realistic about the future.
Fact 1: It won’t be [...]
I’m still shaking my head at this one. In the September issue of Money Magazine, Lauren Willis argues Why you can’t teach money.
You: Who’s Lauren Willis? I never heard of her.
I hadn’t either. She’s a law professor at Loyola Law School in LA. In the article, she maintains, among other things:
Sellers of financial products spend [...]
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