Most Americans are not fluent in the language of money.(what do you mean by language of money - NC) Yet we are expected to make big financial decisions as early as our teens—Should I take on thousands of dollars of student debt? Should I buy a car?—even though most of us have received no formal instruction on financial matters until it was too late.This sentence is a bit awkward to me, reword it While no course in personal finance could have prevented many Americans from getting caught up in the housing bubble, 1 it's clear that most of us need some help, preferably starting when we're still in school. And I'm not just talking about learning to balance your checkbook. It's about understanding concepts like the time value of money,
Most Americans are not fluent in the language of money.(what do you mean by language of money - NC) Yet we are expected to make big financial decisions as early as our teens—Should I take on thousands of dollars of student debt? Should I buy a car?—even though most of us have received no formal instruction on financial matters until it was too late.This sentence is a bit awkward to me, reword it While no course in personal finance could have prevented many Americans from getting caught up in the housing bubble, 1 it's clear that most of us need some help, preferably starting when we're still in school. And I'm not just talking about learning to balance your checkbook. It's about understanding concepts like the time value of money,