I was browsing some personal finance blogs when I came across this video of Jay Leno interviewing people with finance related questions. The answers are astonishing. Of course you have to keep in mind he likely edited each of these, cutting out the people who weren’t funny (e.g. those who actually knew the answers to his questions), but I’m still curious as to how many people really got these questions right. Check out the video for some laughs and potentially some tears as well. Thanks to JLP at AllFinancialMatters!

While biking to school this morning I started thinking about education, finance and money. This led me to wonder how many people are actually taught anything about finance and money while they are attending school. I for one didn’t learn anything about managing money throughout any of my early education years (in fact this goes all the way up through high-school). Maybe this would explain why so many American’s are so in over their head with debt. With so much debt it’s hard to survive if anything bad comes along; especially unemployment.

With that being said, I present to you a new poll:

I’m interested to see your answers to this poll. We’ll see how it turns out, but I’m guessing a majority of us didn’t learn much about managing money in our education.