Personal financial education for the next generation

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Young people need a degree in financial forensics to detect what is being taken from them before they even get it

As a responsible member of the financial community, the Alchemist has long been campaigning for better personal financial education for children, starting with counting jelly beans for six year olds, and progressing to a calm but explicit explanation of the funding of university fees to teenagers, encompassing, along the way, the hazards of the unregulated credit cards. Far from avoiding the subject of money, little people are utterly bewitched by it and quickly appreciate its powers. Hear the case of a six year old who negotiates fixed, standard and variable pocket money rates on everythin...

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