Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club

http://www.smckids.com/

by psyklic • 16 years ago

68 26 16 years ago

makmanalp2• 16 years ago

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.

tbrownaw• 16 years ago

Oh, lovely. An auto-play video.

ghshephard2• 16 years ago

Impressively unusable from an iPad.

makmanalp2• 16 years ago

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

ghshephard2• 16 years ago

Kind of tough for me to tell. :-)

melling• 16 years ago

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.

cookiecaper• 16 years ago

This is pretty awesome.

sushi• 16 years ago

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

Scott_MacGregor• 16 years ago

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.

ajaimk• 16 years ago

Wish this was around when I was a kid.

cdr2• 16 years ago

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

Hexstream2• 16 years ago

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

icco• 16 years ago

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

MrFoof• 16 years ago

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.

MichaelGG• 16 years ago

"your 2,000 Buffett Bucks (ßß)"

Why would you turn a B into an ss?

jfarmer• 16 years ago

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

jrockway• 16 years ago

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

Raphael• 16 years ago

Terrible. I recommend Virtual Stock Exchange as an alternative.

jakarta• 16 years ago

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

mpk• 16 years ago

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

jaekwon• 16 years ago

No.

Who's running that site anyways?

jfornear• 16 years ago

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

kanwisher• 16 years ago

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.

Vivtek• 16 years ago

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

Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club

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