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http://www.smckids.com/episodes/lemons-to-lemonade -> This is amazing. To be honest, all kids should learn this stuff. It surprises me how people are so uninformed that they make really stupid business decisions.

Oh, lovely. An auto-play video.

Am I the only one who expected a conspiracy site after clicking that link?

No.

Who's running that site anyways?

Every kid should watch these videos before they spend their parents' hard earned money on the business school.

"your 2,000 Buffett Bucks (ßß)"

Why would you turn a B into an ss?

I imagine because it's easier to identity as a currency symbol.

Because it looks like a B to anyone that doesn't speak German.

Someone should just build a bot to accumulate Buffett Bucks by 'exploring' the site 24/7. Guaranteed upside! :)

Kinda clever idea, don't think my younger sisters would find it fun enough. It seems a bit too overdone ;/ I used to be in a stock market club in school, I think this is a great idea just not the best execution.

This is pretty awesome.

This is cute. I like the hard driving music, plus it teaches kids useful stuff. The $2,000 "Buffet Bucks" seems like a good hook for users too.

This is pretty cool - although it did hurt my brain thinking it was a really funny joke, until I realized ... it ... wasn't.

Wish this was around when I was a kid.

This looks like the sort of thing I'd have mercilessly mocked when I was a kid.

That may say more about you as a kid than about the show.

I'm pretty sure it says more about the show. I'm no expert, but I think the tone is strikes might work for younger children, but likely not very well for the older children I'd think they'd be targeting with investing education.

Given the subject matter I'm not sure how much better than this they could make it. But I must say it looks like they're trying a bit too hard to make this "cool" at times.

I totally agree. But who knows maybe this generation will actually learn from entertainment, I know mine didn't, but there is always hope.

I'm not sure if public schools had book fairs and a bookmobile, but the school district I grew up in did. Presumably because the school got a cut of the sales, and it's hard to argue getting kids to read.

I can't remember the book for the life of me, but I had something that explained much of home economics and some very basic economics concepts at a 3rd or 4th grade level, rife with illustrations.

There's still books available such as "The Everything Kids' Money Book" and whatnot. One would assume they're written to be engaging to at least some portion of kids.

Terrible. I recommend Virtual Stock Exchange as an alternative.

I think Buffett was asked about paper trading once... he compared it to 'reading about sex' -- not even close to the real thing.

Impressively unusable from an iPad.

I don't think a significant portion of the target audience use ipads.

Kind of tough for me to tell. :-)

I read most of my Hacker News from an iPhone. I feel less guilty not "dedicating" too much time to it, and I get in my fix a little more often.

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