Here’s how we learned history when I was in school: a dead guy (Mr. X) did something important (action Y) a long time ago (year Z). Memorize X, Y and Z — it will be on the test. Did I like history?

Check it out: the Federal Reserve is considering a massive shift to the way many Americans bank. And it wants to know what you think about it. The Fed on Dec. 4 requested public input from businesses ...

I have a financial literacy confession to make: I’m not good at writing checks. In Finland, where I was born, paying with credit and debit cards became common in the early 1980s. When I was growing up ...