Picture this: You’re a 16-year-old boy… wait, it gets worse! You’re hired to crew a ship on a voyage to a faraway land to trade for exotic spices and textiles and medicine. The voyage is dangerous: rough seas, foreign animals and insects, unfriendly strangers, scurvy… but what an adventure, huh? When successful, the payoff was […]
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Five fabulous accounts you should have
As you know (if you’ve been reading this column), your money should be growing for you as much as possible, as soon as it comes into your hot little hands. This way you can be financially independent early in life and do all the lovely things you dream of. At the end of the day, […]
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Reality Town prepares students to balance life and their checkbooks
By Lou GallYouth Correspondent This past month, Glenwood Springs High School (GSHS) held Reality Town, an event that focuses on teaching high school students how to balance life with the cost of living. Jill Wilson, a financial literacy teacher and the director of the GSHS event, had a lot to say. “It’s a culminating activity […]
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Money Juice: Three fast tips to grow your money
Money Juice is all about getting people on a path to sustainable wealth while having fun in the process. Does money stress you out? If you think developing wealth is a pie-in-the-sky goal for people who already have money, you are sadly mistaken. Growing money is for all of us. Money likes to grow. It’s […]