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I hate our formal education. I mean, we spend close to a quarter of our lives in school but they never teach us how to handle money. We are told to work hard and be good employees. This is something which is not healthy for us or our children because we always have to struggle to make ends meet.

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Gold prices plunged to a two-week low after the dollar rose surged against the euro. Other precious metals also fell sharply Friday. However, crude oil surged to a new record of $117 and wheat prices plummet.

The dollar edged higher after European officials expressed concern that its euro strength was becoming harmful. A stronger dollar encourages investors to sell hard assets like gold and silver, which are viewed as inflation hedges since they’re known for holding their value in times of rising prices.

Gold for June delivery dropped $27.70 to settle at $915.20 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after earlier falling as low as $907.30, its lowest level in two weeks. Gold was “heavily weighed down by an initial retreat in crude oil and the dollar’s rapid ascent,” Jon Nadler, analyst with Kitco Bullion Dealers Montreal, said in a note.

In energy futures, crude oil shot up to record level after a militant group in Nigeria said it had sabotaged a major oil pipeline operated by a Royal Dutch Shell PLC joint venture. The group promised further attacks on the country’s petroleum industry, rattling investors who have pushed oil prices to record highs for five straight days.

In agriculture futures, wheat plunged to its lowest level in four months as investors bet that favorable weather in the U.S. Midwest would boost crops.

Recently, Warren Buffett invited a group of business students for an intensive day of learning.

One of the tips he stressed is that investors should not think that what they read today is important in terms of their investment strategy. Investors should realize that:

1. If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn’t necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

2. they can’t pick stocks that are better than average.

Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There’s only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them, basically.

Buying a cross section of American industry is a good idea. If the cross section doesn’t work, picking the little beauties here and there isn’t going to work either. Then they just have to worry about getting greedy.

If you really want to invest, get greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. Of course, you shouldn’t get greedy when others get greedy and fearful when others get fearful. At a minimum, try to stay away from that.

Two U.S. home financing heavyweights won government approval on Wednesday to pump $200 billion more into troubled U.S. mortgage markets, the latest step to stabilize credit markets and avert a deep recession.

Despite intensive efforts to battle rising home foreclosures and calm shaky markets by the Treasury Department and the Fed, which has pledged $400 billion to free up credit, Democratic lawmakers continue to press for bolder action.

Still, markets were not calmed by the latest move by the regulator that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to immediately loosen their capital requirements and give them a bigger role in buying up mortgages.

More relief, however, is in the works. A separate regulator appeared near a decision to allow the Federal Home Loan Bank System to double some mortgage holdings to around $300 billion — which would be another big shot of market liquidity.