
When it comes to being financially literate, Americans fall woefully short. Although the U.S. is the world's largest economy, the Standard & Poor's Global Financial Literacy Survey ranks it No. 14 (tied with Switzerland) when measuring the proportion of adults in the country who are financially literate. To put that into perspective: the U.S. adult financial literacy level, at 57%, is only slightly higher than that of Botswana, whose economy is 1,127% smaller. Click here to read the rest of this article from InvestmentNews
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