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Financial literacy is a public policy problem

  • Written by Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
imageFinancial illiteracy contributed to the last financial crisis. Shutterstock

As the world of finance becomes more complex, most of us aren’t keeping up. In this series we’re exploring what it means to be financially literate.

It’s pretty common nowadays to see the likes of the Reserve Bank of Australia or the Australian Bureau of...

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