Dave Ramsey has created a Financial Literacy class for high school students that is being used in about 1000 schools.

FMF guest posts a nice piece on GRS about earning 6 figures in 7 years, gets a surprising # of negative comments. Themes: Jealousy, "not everyone can do it," "I'm too old," "Yeah but 100k means you hate your job"

Sad story about pilot whose salary was cut 50% to $34,000

Jeff Yass was always a little different from his peers — a brilliant young man taken with poker and horse racing and the power of rational decision-making. He’s used all of it to turn his company — Bala Cynwyd’s stealthy and mysterious Susquehanna International — into one of the world’s most lucrative and powerful financial firms

As more Americans lose work, many are increasingly struggling to pay their credit card bills, forcing banks to do what they had been loath to do in the past: forgive some of the debt or modify it in the cardholders' favor.