In my travels I found this tidbit from Mellody Hobson, Good Morning America’s financial commentator and president of Ariel Capital Management (go figure that I have to leave the country to come across this!)
Hobson advocates that “In our cashless society of maxed-out credit cards and corporate excess, positive financial role models are few and far between. This is why I am on a mission to make the stock market a topic of dinner conversation in every home and financial literacy a mainstay in education. If we added an “I” – investing – to the three Rs of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and included it in the curriculum of every school worldwide, our children would learn the basics of wealth creation and gain the skills to transform their lives, their financial futures, and ultimately the course of their families and communities. That would save the world.”
All I can add after long day, is rock on! My next question that I consider, in my half asleep way, is what us DINKs can do to further this initiative. Saving the world goes much further that education about finance, but it is an interesting place to start…
Goodnight!
Miel
