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These personal finance videos are like sensible shoes: they won’t win any awards, but they can be useful. Produced by the College of Financial Planning, the short videos demystify the fundamentals of personal finance that the planners who teach and take courses at the college rely on in their practices. “Free Money” (above) features Dirk…

Rather than put his money in a bank, my cousin, who’s in his mid-40s, makes loans in $25 increments on a peer-to-peer lending website. He decides on the amount of risk he’s willing to take on – and the riskier the borrowers he chooses, the more he earns on his “savings.” My cousin’s $25 investments…