Finance website Mint.com asked me some good questions for their blog. You can visit them there or enjoy the repost below. As a former Wall Street insider, what do you think is the average person’s largest misconception about investing? The average person thinks that what Wall Street does is so complex that it requires extremely [&hellip

A version of this post ran in the San Antonio Express News. In late high school and college I travelled to Mexico as often as I could. Some trips I went for ten days, later trips for a semester of school, then a whole summer. Finally, after graduating from college, I lived and studied in [&hellip

I teach an adult course next month about teaching one’s kids about money and finance. I also engage in home-based experiments on my own guinea pigs (err, children) all the time, trying out lessons on stock investing, or compound interest. But most home-schooling requires a textbook (or e-book), so I was pleased to receive a [&hellip

Children and young people need to understand money and financial choices as much as any other topic, yet they don’t get ‘The Talk’ from their parents about money until they reach age, well actually, never. Most children never get The Talk. We can easily list reasons for this, such as: 1. Most parents are barely scraping by and don’t [&hellip

A version of this post appeared in the San Antonio Express News. Nobody ever told me this, but I’ve always assumed that a first rule of writing is to never – ever – try to teach math through blog posts. But I learned writing through blogging on the interwebs where a first rule of everything – [&hellip