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Teen Financial Literacy Has a New Silver Lining

The Easter Bunny has completed his work and spring buds are blooming, which means financial literacy month officially began its 2023 celebration. Throughout the month, we’ll be celebrating with exclusive content, special offers, and relevant tips. But first, let’s assess … read more

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Celebrate Financial Literacy Month with Biz Kid$

In case your calendar missed the moment, April is officially Financial Literacy Month. Yes, in addition to a month marked by spring cleaning and Easter baskets, this is the month we champion the merits of teaching kids about money. At … read more

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Your Savings Just Got Supercharged

A couple years ago, the difference between stuffing bills into a ceramic pig and driving them to your local bank would have been…forgettable. The interest awarded to savings account holders at some of the country’s biggest banks was 0.01%. No, … read more

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About that Bonkers Week in Banking

It must have been an interesting week to be a banker. It sure was an interesting weekend to be an account holder at one bank in California. That’s because last Friday, the federal government announced that Silicon Valley Bank had … read more

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Making a Splash – and a Profit – as a Kid Entrepreneur

This is part three of a three-part series on youth entrepreneurship. You can read part one here and part two here. Two weeks ago, we championed the news of entrepreneurship’s rise with a rallying cry to launch a business of … read more

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All About Love (and Money)

It doesn’t take a sleuth to detect the theme of the month. Candy hearts, red foiled greeting cards, and shimmering boxes of chocolates have replaced stores’ holiday season clearance sections with haste. Valentine’s Day is approaching, and the month of … read more

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Bringing Back Budgeting

What memories or emotions does the word “budget” bring to your mind? Perhaps it’s a childhood memory about buying clothes – or not buying clothes – for the new school year. Perhaps it’s recent headlines about the government’s inability to … read more

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Why Financial Basics > Financial Fads

If you’d listened to the financial “wisdom” of the pundits on social media over the last couple of years, you’d have been in for one heck of a roller coaster ride. If you happened to get lucky with regards to … read more

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Three keys for growing your dough in 2023

Take a quick survey of the 2023 New Year’s resolutions of close friends and family, and two words are likely to bubble to the surface: more and less. “I want to look at my phone less this year.” “I want … read more

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Just received a new gadget? Fill it with profitable fun.

Word from the North Pole is that this was a big year for screens of all varieties — new smartphones, TVs, and computers had Santa’s sleigh quite loaded down last week. Our take? Nothing could be better — if you … read more

“If it sounds too good to be true…”

Yesterday, a man recently touted as the “JP Morgan of crypto” was led into a police car in the Bahamas. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency platform FTX, was arrested after the sudden collapse of his company and the yet-to-be-determined … read more

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About That $2 Billion Powerball Jackpot

Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that many lottery winners wish they never won in the first place. And the fact that the odds of winning the jackpot – 1 in 292 million – are almost exactly the … read more