borrowing and lending

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borrowing and lending

Using credit wisely

When you buy something on credit, someone else loans you money to pay for your purchase. If you repay your loans on time, you get a good credit rating. If you don?t, you get a bad credit rating. Learn about the different kinds of credit, how to calculate interest, how to keep credit records, and more.

Budgeting smarts

how to set goals, save money, spend wisely, and more
Explores budgeting for teens, including how to make your own budget, evaluating your financial goals and priorities, banking, saving money, making smart spending decisions, and the benefits and dangers of using credit cards.

The merchant of Venice

Presents an adaptation of the play about a creditor who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a defaulted debt and a lover who must solve a riddle to win the woman of his dreams.

The new paradigm for financial markets

the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means
2008
In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. In a concise essay that combines practical insight with philosophical depth, Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

Matilda the moocher

1997
Matilda thinks nothing of dropping by her neighbor Libby's house to ride her bike or borrow her socks, but Libby thinks that Matilda is taking advantage of her.

Karen's doll

1991
Karen lends a very expensive doll to a sick friend and now is worried that she might not get it back.

Country Bear's good neighbor

1988
Country Bear borrows all the ingredients for a cake from his neighbor and then gives her the cake as a present. Includes a recipe for apple cake.
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