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There is a gaping hole in the American education system,

although I hesitate even to call it a system.

When you go to high school, they teach you chemistry,

they teach you chemistry, they teach you physics.

You have English classes, history classes, foreign language classes.

You can graduate from college speaking three languages

with a deep understanding of quantum physics or ancient philosophy.

But you know the one thing they almost never teach you in middle school or high school

to say nothing in college? Financial literacy. And I'm not talking about economics here.

You could be an E-Con major and still learn nothing about financial planning or retirement

readiness, let alone investing. Money is just not talked about. Frankly, it's become the third

rail of American education. You're a thousand times more likely to read Marx's Das Kapital

than to read anything about planning a budget or certainly picking stocks.

And that's why I want a constant mission to teach you how to manage your money, which is what

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