By Steve Rosen
From Tribune Content Agency
Gabe Ruschman is a 16-year-old go-getter. An honor roll student from the Chicago suburb of Skokie, he plays safety on his high school football team, carves out time to play the trumpet, and has worked as a seasonal employee at Home Depot over the summer.
The teen is also passionate about cars, and his recent shopping experience spurred interest in learning how to manage his money better—from saving, goal setting, budgeting, investing in stocks, and more.
With an encouraging boost from his grandfather Robert Ruschman, Gabe emailed me a list of questions that covered a wide range of money management issues that he was curious about. The answers included so many interesting nuggets of information that I thought they should be shared with Kids & Money readers, especially teens….