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Rule Breaker Investing

Financial Literacy: Interview with Dr. Annamaria Lusardi

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Motley Fool has long been an advocate of financial literacy in our schools. Crazy talk, right? Today, David has the pleasure of hosting one of the preeminent experts on the subject, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi of George Washingon University to discuss why this is such an important subject. And stick around for the close, where we will announce a fantastic opportunity for you and your kids!

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.

0:26.0

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

0:28.0

You know, this week's episode got touched off on September 4th of 2016. I have to tell you I don't exactly remember what I was

0:36.6

doing on September 4th of 2016 though I have two tools in my toolbox to determine

0:41.3

it one is that I do keep an active calendar on ICal so I pretty much

0:45.4

have typed in for years every appointment everything that I've done. I even go back later on and

0:49.5

update my calendar and change the times if a meeting went long or a drive was shorter that I thought it was and so I'm pretty anal about keeping my calendar up to date so I could go back and check that and as I've mentioned I've been keeping a journal trying to write a short paragraph to myself

1:03.8

perhaps every single day of this year so I could go back and check what was

1:07.2

happening on September 4th 2016 except that I'm too lazy and it's really not about me.

1:13.6

It's about what happened in a small place on Twitter on September 4th of 2016.

1:20.2

So one of my favorite longtime fools, one of our Motley Fool members, Danny Venna, he's

1:25.1

at Danny Venna on Twitter. He tweeted out a link to a CNN article entitled Sex Ed is Required,

1:34.5

Why Isn't Financial Education?

1:37.9

And Danny in his tweet went on to say,

1:40.5

at David G. Fool has been lobbying for this for years financial education in schools.

1:47.0

That's what started today's episode. Now two days after that I just tweeted back at Danny saying simply I appreciate

1:55.8

you pointing that out Danny we have definitely put in effort here over the

1:59.5

years we need to do more and we have we have put in a lot of effort toward financial education

2:07.4

over the years. Certainly we've been out to schools many times over the last

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