Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

Ours is a nation with shockingly poor financial literacy. Many Americans don’t comprehend common, elementary financial terms such as “Roth IRA” and “mutual funds.” The lack of understanding money and ...

Budgeting, the economy, inflation, stocks, and bonds — how much do you know about money and finances? One thing's for sure: these concepts aren't exactly taught in school. Financial literacy is ...

April is National Financial Literacy Month. To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of “Financial Fitness” articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how ...

If you think you are financially literate, then try to answer this question: How much of your healthcare expenses do Medicare and other government programs cover in retirement? Over 90%? About ...

While there’s been a slight uptick in financial literacy among young people, Americans’ overall financial knowledge and understanding is still shy of what they need to get through life, according to ...

April is National Financial Literacy Month. To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of “Financial Fitness” articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how ...

If you ask any adult educated in the U.S. whether they got a solid financial education in grade school, the answer is probably “no.” Instead, people learn the hard way. “At 18 years old, I had a car ...

The FINRA quiz focuses on seven questions that cover common financial topics: interest rates, inflation, bond prices, mortgages, stocks, debt, and probabilities. These are all issues that come up in ...

If you think you’ve mastered financial basics, you’re either overconfident or in the minority. A new report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center shows that the average American scored ...

Can you pass the high school financial literacy quiz? Here's your chance to find out. (To check your answers, click the "answers" link in the box at right.) 1. Inflation can cause difficulty in many ...