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You know, why are you doing that? why are you doing this? and then you explain to them and kind of bring them into that. my friends actually have a nickname for me, that they've been calling me by -- the last three years or so, they call me mr. president. and they call me that because of my academic involvement and also my involvement with extracurricular activities. you know, my organization, future business leaders of america, i'm state president of maryland, and we have about 3,000 members. and we actually did a financial literacy project. so we like to, you know, expose members to it, expo...

Channel to maybe put together some 101 things about money and finance. terri, what about the aptitude of your students and their interest in learning more about money? because of all the things that have happened over the past two years, i mean, money and business and the financial future of this country are pretty much the top story right now. >> right, so it's a very relevant time to teach that subject. i think that aaron moore is a fantastic student. he's also very well prepared. he didn't take just one personal finance course, he took several over his academic career. but a lot of our stud...

And joining us from baltimore is aaron moore. he, as you just saw, earned a perfect score on the challenge. aaron, because you earned a perfect score, i'm going to start with you, buddy. fantastic job. i saw some of these questions. you know, you really got to think and you got to learn about math and money. tell me, how is it that you got interested in this? and do you think that you're going to keep going forward with money maybe as a career, or is this just going to help your life? >> well, actually, i've been enrolled in a magnet program at my school in baltimore county. it's the academy o...

earn, add an ever-expanding social safety net, throw in high unemployment and nervous investors, it's the recipe for a debt crisis. think we're talking about greece, portugal, spain, europe? well, how about a look right here at home. a $1.6 trillion budget deficit. nearly 40 million people now being fed with food stamps. up to 99 weeks of jobless checks for the 15 million unemployed. uncomfortable parallels with europe. is the u.s. different, though, and why? peter morici is an economist and professor at the university of maryland school of business. chrystia freeland is a global edi...

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