Whaddya know (about personal finance)
We’re unveiling our second “Know It” effort in Sunday’s editions of The Oklahoman. So pick up a copy of the paper, and then head over to NewsOK.com for a whole lot more. In fact, I just taped a video segment on retirement to accompany the online package. I thought I did pretty well, but Steve Carell has revealed the secret techniques of television interviewing.
Appear to Listen
I’ve learned to appear scintillatingly intellectual by asking people questions (”Do you like pizza?”). Then I just look at them, nodding and saying “Hmmm” and “Um hmmm” every few seconds. Try and keep one or two things in your head to regurgitate later. After all, what is knowledge, really, but high-resolution regurgitation?
Speaking of personal finance, CNN has pretty good story about working with kids to teach them how to handle their money. The point being that parents need to talk to their children about saving and spending in the same way that they teach them how and why to brush their teeth. For some reason, we dread the topic of money as much as “the talk.” Perhaps it’s because many parents don’t know much about handling their finances.
In that same vein, I’ll have a story in Sunday’s Business News section about Oklahoma students poor showing on a national financial literacy test. However, they didn’t do any worse that the rest of the nation.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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