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Study: 41% Of Millennials Think Credit Cards Are "Scary"

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Mark Melin
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Is the phrase Millenials Financial Literacy an oxymoron?

It was a little over a month and a half ago that we learned that millennials were swayed by tweets, selfies and social media interaction to make their banking choices. Now a new survey notes that a large percentage, 41%, think using a credit card is a “scary thing” while 6% think a late payment will help their credit score.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.