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Nothing about investing, protecting your purchasing power, money creation and inflation etc during any schooling I've been exposed to. My real education on that front started around 2012 when I watched the zeitgeist film or films. Before that time I don't think I ever seriously thought about the money we use, how it gets created, whether anybody controls it, the architecture of the system, other ways to do it etc. I think there's some serious flaws, misconceptions and misguided or erroneuous lines of argument in that film series but I think it played an important role in getting the ball rolling or setting people down some fruitful rabbit holes. It would be quite a few years later before I delved into the so-called austrian-school perspectives on this. Mises "Economic Calculation int he Socialist Commonwealth" helped me quite a bit in understanding prices, processes of price formation and the relation to free markets and the notion of economic calculation. I often recommend that piece together with Mises' "Bureaucracy" and Bastiat's "The Law".