Financial Literacy

What lifestyle do you want (to support)?

April 12, 2012

Everywhere we turn these days, we hear and read about others who have figured out, and want to share, the secrets to creating our dream lifestyles, live the way we want to live and so on. There are books and seminars galore promising to share these secrets with you, for a nice fee that is. [...]

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Your Teen’s Habits with Money Have Everything to Do with How They Think about Money

March 22, 2012

Guest Blog By Jill Suskind. Since we expose our Camp Millionaire campers to the principle, “Your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes determine your wealth potential”, I thought Jill’s article was a great fit. As an adult, financial beliefs are at the core of your success of failure financially. One of the best books you can read [...]

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The US Tax System Explained in Simple Terms

February 24, 2012

Most people in the United States don’t understand how our tax system works. The following story, written by David R. Kamerschen Ph.D. Professor of Economics originally was written about men and beer so I crafted a kid-friendly version for you. This should be taught in every economics class in the world! How Our Tax System Works [...]

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Chickens and Ducks: Financial Ponderings of a Traveler

February 9, 2012

When we travel, we tend to notice things in the context of our lives. Here are some examples: My boyfriend is in the carpet repair niche, so everywhere we go, he looks for, and critiques, carpet installations and notices carpet that needs to be fixed. If you’re in the bakery business, you spot bakeries and [...]

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Is Financial Literacy a Joke? The Ultimate Financial Education Question

February 6, 2012

This may be the shortest blog I’ve ever written. It consists of one very deep, very enlightened question, based on over 10 years of experience in the ‘industry’ of financial education. Riddle us this one, Bat Man… “Why do public and private schools, all across America, purchase millions of dollars of textbooks and curriculum for [...]

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Financial Planning Musts for The Perfect Vacation

February 2, 2012

There you are, in unfamiliar territory (US or abroad), frustrated by the fact that the credit or debit card you had planned on using isn’t going through at a local restaurant or hotel. Now what do you do? The one thing you do NOT want to have trouble with while traveling, especially out of the [...]

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Financial Literacy: The Missing Pieces

January 5, 2012

A Financially Literate Society – The Five Critical Missing Pieces If it’s one thing most of us adults are painfully aware of, it’s that we weren’t taught how to manage or invest our money when we were young so that we could live independent, financially free lives as adults. We went to school ‘assuming’ we [...]

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Humans and Money…Then, Now and Always

December 15, 2011

I find it absolutely amusing that so many financial planners, financial newsletters writers and money magazines editors continue to tell people they just need to start saving more money, thinking this will actually have an affect on their behavior. As you probably have already guessed, this approach doesn’t work very well. I know this is [...]

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Financial Complications – Choose them wisely.

December 8, 2011

What I have noticed most in the past ten years of being entrenched in this financial literacy business (and it is a business even though there there’s more passion than profit in it…more on that later), is that human beings tend to make their lives complicated. Most of these ‘complications’ take money and I have [...]

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Teachable Money Moments with Kids

November 17, 2011

When it comes to money, my son knows all about swiping debit and credit cards. He’s really good at spending money, both his and mine! When it comes to the finer points of saving, banking, and managing, however, he’s got some room to grow. (Having a financial education advocate for a mom is no guarantee, [...]

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