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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A paper studies just how financially literate LinkedIn users are, with the so-called Big Three literacy questions as their starting point. Numerous papers and researchers contend that Americans have ...