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>> we could do more on -- note to producers, we could do more on our student channel to put together some 101 things about money and finance. what about the aptitude of our student and their interest in learning more about money. 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 have well prepared. he didn't just take one personal finance course, he took several over the course of his career. only about 30% of our students r...

Half of the students scored in the 20th percentile. aaron moore 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 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 of finance, so...

National financial capability challenge. a 40-question online exam taken by 76,000 students nationwide. aaron moore had the top score, a perfect one. >> we learned math, how to add, subtract, multiply and divide and we learned to speak english well, but what everyone does not learn is finance, the missing piece to our future. >> unfortunately, aaron and the other top scorers who win a trip to washington. >> too many students fail to answer basic questions about credit cards, car insurance and making the right decision about personal financial just seven out of eight times out of ten actually i...

Going to see you at this table one day telling me about the company that you're running, i can only hope. you only have to graduate with a couple of years of a foreign language, you're moving toward fluns si in a foreign language, what about finance? why aren't more schools teaching about finance and money? this is what ties every part of your daily life together. >> i think there's absolutely an increasing awareness and phenomenal teachers like terry are instilling these lessons, these values, these lifelong values. i hope one day i'm going to be working for aaron. he's an extraordinary young...

and krista freeland is a economist at large. euro euro europe. >> you have to pay for the things you want and you have to buy them cost effectively. when we pay 50%, 75% more than the journalists do, with the drugs and anesthesiologists and what have you. the price of debts will soar, there's a lack of confidence in the ability of the united states to manage it's finances. >> this is something we're going to be talking about for months and years to come. the u.s. investors still have a great deal of confidence in the u.s., in the fact that we always pay our bills. >> that's right, an...