Our education prepares us for just about everything in life — except handling money. We’re painfully reminded of that deficiency every day. We first notice it when we open a bank account, apply for credit or shop for a new car. We confront it again and again when we think about investing, buying a new home, or trying to sock away money for our kids’ college. It becomes downright alarming when we try to figure out what we’ll need to make our own dreams come true — and how we’ll ever manage to accumulate all that money.
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