Financial Education

With all these mortgages going bust and the debt problem spiraling out of control, I wondered with a friend the other day why Americans are getting themselves into these bad debt situations.

I don't even have a credit card. I know that I don't know enough about money to get one and I wondered, personal finance is maybe the most important life skill one can have. What I don't understand, and maybe this is already happening, is why personal finance skills are not a mandatory course in high school. I say high school, because not everyone attends college, or can afford it.

I think I need to go get a personal finance for dummies book now.

Penny-pinchin',
'thew

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