Do You Know More About Personal Finance Than This High Schooler?

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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More than 120 high-schoolers put their personal finance knowledge to the test in the Council for Economic Education’s National Personal Finance Challenge. Host Oyin Adedoyin is joined by personal finance reporter Ashlea Ebeling, who helped turn the questions from the challenge into a quiz for Wall Street Journal readers, some of whom didn’t score as well as the teenagers who competed. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the year 2000.
0:02.8	Everyone, everywhere, is having fun, except me.
0:06.6	On BBC Eye Player.
0:08.0	I worry you're growing up too fast.
0:10.6	Yeah, we can't be your little ducky forever, can I?
0:13.0	Inspired by a true story.
0:14.8	Walk out of this house a boy, one day you'll come back.
0:17.8	When you do, you will be a man.
0:20.2	I won't hold your breath. What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you. come back. When you do, you will be a man. Oh, and hold your breath.
0:21.5	What it feels like for a girl.
0:23.2	I wish I could look like you.
0:24.7	Bebe, you can.
0:26.2	Why don't you?
0:27.0	Watch on BBC Eye Player.
0:30.2	Okay, here we go.
0:33.3	It's time for the final round
0:35.7	of the 16th annual National Personal Finance Challenge.
0:44.3	The only point where we really felt confident, oh, we got this, we're going to win, was at the last two questions on the final quiz ball.
0:54.2	It was very intense, very stressful, but I think we all really enjoyed that kind of, that intensity.
1:03.4	That's Caleb Lee.
1:04.9	He's 17 years old, and he was part of a four-person team of students from Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego,
1:12.0	who recently won the Council of Economic Education's National Personal Finance Challenge.
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