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Financial advice from the things that aren’t said

July 29, 2022 by admin

Author’s note: This column was released in syndication on May 4. 2022 One of life’s truisms is that some things are better left unsaid. In the investing world, however, some things are just never said at all. Not because silence is “the right thing to do,” but more because no matter how much someone might …

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Your children want to invest in cryptocurrencies

July 28, 2022 by admin

This column was released in syndication on April 6. 2022.     Jack in Seattle wants to teach his teenage son JJ important lessons about money, but the boy “doesn’t want to talk with me about money, he only wants to talk about cryptocurrency.”    That disconnect – not believing that Bitcoin and other crypto coins …

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There’s no place like home for teaching kids about money

April 1, 2022 by admin

Last week, Florida became the latest state to mandate a financial literacy course as a requirement for graduation from a public high school. It’s part of a trend that has more than 50 personal-finance education bills under consideration in 26 states, according to Next Gen Personal Finance, a non-profit organization that tracks the legislation. There …

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Fill the Christmas stockings with these stocks

December 8, 2021 by admin

Janet, a grandmother from New Orleans, wants to give a little something extra this year for the holidays, but doesn’t want to go to the mall to get it. She’s not shopping online for it either. She wants to buy her six grandchildren stock. “I saw something that said that a gift of stock is …

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Cultivating money lessons from the candy bowl

November 10, 2021 by admin

There was a lot of “bad-decision making” at my house this Halloween, and it wasn’t about eating too much candy. Instead, it was the way the children in my neighborhood responded to my annual effort to turn All Hallows Eve into a lesson about money. Each year, it’s a fun evening filled by conversations with …

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Learn who your source is before trusting their money ideas

September 17, 2021 by admin

More than half of Americans report that either no one taught them about money or that they learned how to handle finances on their own. Combine that lack of formal training with a desire to improve personal money management and you create as much potential for trouble as for profit. It’s hard to know who …

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The real key to achieving financial literacy? More money

May 10, 2021 by admin

At the end of National Financial Literacy Month, the one thing we can be sure of is that Americans are more financially savvy and knowledgeable than they were in the past. That’s not some shining statement on the value of the nation’s financial literacy efforts, including the annual April celebration that started more than 20 …

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