Raise your hand if you know the answer. Which of the following tends to have the highest growth over 18 years: A), a U.S. savings bond; B), stocks or C) a savings account? If you answered B for stocks, you're way ahead of most teenagers in this country. In a recent financial literacy survey of the nation's high school seniors, most of the kids chose a different answer. More than half flunked the test. Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner reports on finance lessons for students.

It's time once again for our economics editor Chris Farrell is to help you sort out what's smart, what's stupid and what's the "Straight Story." What was once off-limits to the average investor is now a possibility: Hedge Funds. Chris Farrell has some free advice: just say no.

According to the Labor Department, women make about 78 cents for every dollar a man makes. However, there’s one area that women’s wages are growing faster than men’s: paychecks that run into six figures. That particular statistic comes from the book, "Secrets of Six Figure Women," by Barbara Stanny. She talked to more than a 150 women who earn more than $100,000 dollars to find out how they got there. And she’s sharing those secrets with Kai.

Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Sound Money will bring you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance --OPEC. You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?