A Monopoly club at a library is used to teach financial literacy to teenagers. ASTRID RIECKEN | The Washington Post | Getty Images Americans are still receiving a failing grade at personal finance, according to the latest results from an annual study. And it could not come at a worse time, with the coronavirus pandemic causing massive market volatility, job and income losses compiling at an unprecedented clip, and a level of financial stress for Americans not experienced since 2008. Just take...

watch now Americans choose where they live for many reasons, including access to a quality education for their children. But families may not pay close attention to one educational standard that varies from state to state and can have big implications for financial well-being and, in particular, student debt: high school personal finance content. There’s increasing evidence that students who are required to learn financial literacy as part of a state’s education curriculum make better...

watch now Workday co-founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri has been a success. He started the human resources technology company in 2005 and has grown it to a stock market valuation over $40 billion. His own net worth is valued by Forbes in the billions. He sees technology playing a big role in the success of all workers in the future. In particular, machine learning and the blockchain. “Blockchain is a technology looking for a problem to solve. We found one to solve, which is credentials,” Bhusri...

The blockchain, the digital ledger system that underlies the boom in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, is an innovation born within the open-source software community, where software coders pride themselves on the sharing of information. But the blockchain's open-source formative years may not stay that way. As bitcoin nears $20,000 and other digital currencies experience unprecedented gains, some of the biggest names in the corporate world are seeking patents related to the blockchain —...