Key Components
The Ugliness of Debt
Today's American Reality
Money Personalities
Money Outsmarts Americans
100

A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something

What is a plan?

100

A fee paid by a borrower to a lender for the use of borrowed $.

What is interest?

100

A way of life for 80% of Americans.

What living paycheck to paycheck?

100

Expressing negative emotions about money, anger, frustration and stress.

What is frustration?

100

Americans love their new cars, fancy clothes, boats, guns, bikes, electronics, and everything else they can BUY.

What is stuff?

200

Spender or saver, neither is right or wrong.

What is your money personality?

200

A debt that carries a note stating the principal amount, the rate of interest, and the date due.

What is a loan?

200

80% and 20%

What percent is behavior and what percent is head knowledge regarding personal finance?

200

Money is needed to survive but it's not a requirement for happiness.

What is money isn't everything?

200

Americans are taught that money can buy a feeling of complete peace, a state of pleasure and contentment.

What is happiness?

300

Evaluate or consider your $ in order to make a judgment about where you stand. 

What is assess your money situation?

300

The granting of a loan and the creation of debt with a deferred payment.

What is credit?

300

Spending more than you make.

What is living beyond your means?

300

Expressing a more positive view of money, understanding of saving, budgeting etc.

What is pragmatic?

300

The main culprit that keeps you from building wealth.

What is debt?

400

An aim or desired result for your $.

What is setting money goals?

400

A lifestyle where a person/family is living in a stressful $ situation. 

What is living paycheck to paycheck?

400

A little piece of plastic that nearly all Americans use to go into debt.

What are credit cards?

400

Watching how people handle their money and maybe even being critical of how it was/is handled.

What is role model?

400

Approximately 21,000,000,000,000


What is the US debt?

500

To carry out or put into effect.

What is Execute your plan?

500

Unable to meet financial obligations, no money to meet even needs.

What is bankrupt?

500

This debt is often considered to be a "good debt".

What are school loans?

500

A person who tends not to spend money and especially on frivolous things.

What is a saver?

500

People are doing things in order to show that they have as much money as other people

What is "Keeping up with the Joneses?