Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

This research was funded using an unconditional grant from the Ecstra Foundation. MUCHE has received government funding for aged care related work. This story is part of a series on financial and ...

Budgeting, the economy, inflation, stocks, and bonds — how much do you know about money and finances? One thing's for sure: these concepts aren't exactly taught in school. Financial literacy is ...

April is National Financial Literacy Month. To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of “Financial Fitness” articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how ...

Ours is a nation with shockingly poor financial literacy. Many Americans don’t comprehend common, elementary financial terms such as “Roth IRA” and “mutual funds.” The lack of understanding money and ...

The FINRA quiz focuses on seven questions that cover common financial topics: interest rates, inflation, bond prices, mortgages, stocks, debt, and probabilities. These are all issues that come up in ...

April is National Financial Literacy Month. To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of “Financial Fitness” articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how ...

If you ask any adult educated in the U.S. whether they got a solid financial education in grade school, the answer is probably “no.” Instead, people learn the hard way. “At 18 years old, I had a car ...

I would be a lawyer/accountant/doctor/engineer/etc but I just couldn’t be bothered to take the test.” We don’t believe them, ...

While there’s been a slight uptick in financial literacy among young people, Americans’ overall financial knowledge and understanding is still shy of what they need to get through life, according to ...

Hardly a week passes without announcement of a new platform to help us invest and save better. Even Deepak Chopra, not a name normally associated with financial wellness, is getting in on the trend— ...

Can you pass the high school financial literacy quiz? Here's your chance to find out. (To check your answers, click the "answers" link in the box at right.) 1. Inflation can cause difficulty in many ...