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How financially literate are you? 3 things you should know about your money
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1568" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://ideas.ted.com/how-financially-literate-are-you-3-things-you-should-know-about-your-money/" target="_blank"><strong>How financially literate are you? 3 things you should know about your money - TED</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>How do most of us learn how to use our money wisely and well? </strong>When we’re growing up, we’re given special instruction in important subjects — swimming, driving, sex — to arm us with info and keep us from harm.</p><p></p><p><strong>Yet when it comes to managing our money — an activity that every one of us needs to do, every day — we receive surprisingly little preparation. </strong>We’re not taught much about it in school, because education systems leave it to us to learn from our families and friends. However, those people often don’t fill in the gaps because money can be such a loaded or taboo topic.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://financiallysavvylatina.weebly.com/about.html" target="_blank">Natalie Torres-Haddad</a>, who grew up in southern California, saw many people around her struggling with debt and financial instability. She was determined to be the exception, and she purchased her first rental property in her early 20s and earned an MPA in Finance & International Business. In the process, however, she became buried in debt. Only by teaching herself the basics of money — basics that she’d never learned — was she able to steady herself and her finances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1568, member: 1"] [URL='https://ideas.ted.com/how-financially-literate-are-you-3-things-you-should-know-about-your-money/'][B]How financially literate are you? 3 things you should know about your money - TED[/B][/URL] [B]How do most of us learn how to use our money wisely and well? [/B]When we’re growing up, we’re given special instruction in important subjects — swimming, driving, sex — to arm us with info and keep us from harm. [B]Yet when it comes to managing our money — an activity that every one of us needs to do, every day — we receive surprisingly little preparation. [/B]We’re not taught much about it in school, because education systems leave it to us to learn from our families and friends. However, those people often don’t fill in the gaps because money can be such a loaded or taboo topic. [URL='https://financiallysavvylatina.weebly.com/about.html']Natalie Torres-Haddad[/URL], who grew up in southern California, saw many people around her struggling with debt and financial instability. She was determined to be the exception, and she purchased her first rental property in her early 20s and earned an MPA in Finance & International Business. In the process, however, she became buried in debt. Only by teaching herself the basics of money — basics that she’d never learned — was she able to steady herself and her finances. [/QUOTE]
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