Category Archives: Financial Literacy Blog
4 Ways Your Financial Advisor Should Help You
The Money section of US News and World Reports has a nice article that outlines four ways to get the most out of your relationship with your financial advisor. The most important one, I believe is number four: Help to empower you. A good financial advisor should act almost as a financial tutor who wants [...]
Should Schools Be Responsible for Our Kids’ Financial Education?
In Ohio, schools have been mandated to teach financial literacy classes to their students, but according to this article at cincinnati.com many have been slow to implement it and some may not be offering it at all. According to the article, funding and time are issues. Some cite that it should be the responsibility of [...]
Shoot Your TV?
For many of us (myself included) the decision to own a TV (and all that owning one entails: cable service, Netflix, video games, etc.) was never much of a decision—it was kind of a natural element to the territory. But, after reading this entry from the Pure Financial Education blog, “No TV = Less Spending“, [...]
Top 5 Financial Literacy Web Sites We Love
… (beside our own of course!) and we think you should love them too. MyMoney.gov: Description from site: MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government’s website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education. [The] site organizes financial education help from over 20 different Federal web sites in one place. Content is organized by where [...]
Choosing What to Do With Your Cake
When our parents reminded us that we cannot have our cake and eat it too, it taught us all we need to know about the saving versus spending choice. Since debt and money problems are such a big source of stress for so many people, logic tells us that we would be happier with a [...]
