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We have all heard it said: “Cash Is King.” A growing number of Americans are starting to agree.

The American Dream has become buying it all today and paying for it tomorrow…with interest. Houses, cars, clothes, college education. The average household spends thousands on interest every year. No wonder the financiers are getting richer!

Not surprisingly, Generations X and Y are getting themselves into huge financial trouble. Our public schools must step up to give our kids a practical, real-world financial education if America’s cycle of financial illiteracy is to be broken.

“Just a minute – just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You’re right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I’ll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was [...]

More Debt Is Not The Answer “I was on my way to recovery, then you enabled me.” – Drug Addict Bailing out banks is like a mother giving her 28 year old son that is living at home, money for heroin, driving him downtown to buy the drugs and then back home so he can [...]

Perhaps society’s current relationship with debt has not changed, but for those with the courage to read today’s gripping post, your feelings and attitudes toward debt certainly will transform.