My mission is simple, to make you money. I'm here to level the playing field for all investors.

There's always a home market somewhere, and I promise to help you find it. Man Money starts now.

Hey, I'm Kramer. Welcome to Man Money. Welcome to Kramer. I'll be with my friends. I'm just trying to help you make some money. My job is not just entertained, but to teach you. So call me at 1-800-743-Cmb-C-0. Tweet me at Jim Kramer. 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

Geometry, they teach 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

or say nothing of college?

Financial literacy.

And I'm not talking about economics here.

You could be an econ 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 own a

constant mission to teach you how to manage your money, which is what we do every day in the CNBC Investing Club with the tribal trust providing a constant source of examples.

And when it comes to managing your money, nothing is more important than retirement.

Sooner or later, you're going to stop working, hopefully sooner rather than later unless you really love your job.

So I'm betting most of you, even if you don't own individual stocks, still have some money in a 401k plan. Now, decades ago, corporate pensions started going the way of the do-do, and now the 401k is the main way that Americans save for retirement. They're offered by your employer, and they're among the greatest tax-deferred investment vehicles out there, along with the IRA, and I'm not talking about the Irish Republican Army.

I'm not even talking about the Inflation Reduction Act, for that matter.

I mean the individual retirement account.

For those of you who are about to change the channel because the whole idea of saving from retirement puts you to sleep, hear me out, darn it?

You need to know this stuff.

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