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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Understanding money is a skill everyone needs, yet too many people struggle with the basics. While the financial world is continuously growing and evolving, our collective grasp of it is not. Alarming ...

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 ...

You are reading our weekly Well+Being newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Few topics are as stressful as money, and there’s nothing like tax season to amplify ...

Financial literacy scores keep falling in America, but research shows smartphones are partly to blame for the decline.

Ten years later, Lusardi and Mitchell are out with a new paper, similarly titled, but much more upbeat. "The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening A New Field," picks up where their 2013 study of ...

Financial illiteracy costs the average American $1,015 a year. This isn't just some abstract statistic - it's real money lost to bad budgeting, high-interest debt, and missed chances to grow wealth.

A few months ago, my dad sat at the dining table, furiously filling out our tax forms that were due the next day. I looked over and saw a bunch of financial jargon that immediately flew straight over ...