Gabby Chats

  My Experience. Numbers have always played a big role in my life, but never in a finance way, just simple plain mathematics. The only type of “financial literacy” I got in elementary or middle school was a quarter was 25 cents, a dime was 10 cents, a nickel was 5 cents, and a penny was a cent. Outside of school, most of my family weren’t financially literate either, just my grandfather. He would just tell me to be smart with my money, but as someone as young as I was, I didn’t understand what that really meant.  High School. In my high school, we had these rotational classes, meaning each marking period there was a different class to try to teach us about finance, careers, etc. Freshman year the class I took that could’ve possibly taught me anything about financial literacy would be my consumer math class. The issue with that class was the teacher didn’t even look like she wanted to teach it. She would just give us assignments on finance, but didn’t really explain it. If she ...

Fast Food vs Tobacco? When you see this topic, you may think, are we comparing fast food to tobacco or vice versa? Are we trying to see which one is better for you? Should we eat fast food instead of smoking or smoke instead of eating fast food? Should we do both? I thought the same thing. This topic is about the advertisement and marketing of fast food, and if it's the new "it" item as tobacco once was. Now, whether it is or not, since fast food is connected in some way to obesity, is that a personal or governmental issue? What do I think?  I think that what you choose to eat is a personal choice and the government should have no say in what you eat, but at the same time people should not be penalized for their health issues.      Fast food companies, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Chick-fil-a, and many others may do a lot of different marketing strategies to attract customers, but how else are they supposed to run their business? To keep their business...