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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Well according to the bill’s sponsors, in the resolution presented to and passed by the 112 th Congress this March, we have a lot of issues to solve. Household debt stood at $13,200,000,000,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2010 (according to a 2011 ‘‘Flow of Funds’’ report by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).

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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

million according to All the President’s Money: Where the Obama Invested in 2010. million in 2010 – most of this comes from royalties on his two books (Dreams from My Father, and Audacity of Hope). He earned 1.57 Of course, sales of his books, and hence his royalties most likely increased because he became president!