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Advisers should advocate financial literacy

Far too many Americans are fiscally ignorant and are raising fiscally challenged children

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

— John Adams

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