Collection
Money Sense
What money actually is, where it goes, and who is trying to take it.
18 cards
Money
The story everyone believes
Anything a group of people agree to accept in exchange for things.
Barter
The deal before money
Swapping one thing directly for another, with no money in between.
Inflation
The tax on your piggy bank
The slow loss of what money can buy, year after year.
The Budget
Three numbers that run your money
A plan made before the spending starts, not after.
Need vs Want
The one-question filter
A need keeps life working; a want makes it nicer.
Compound Interest
The snowball that keeps growing
Interest that earns interest, so growth speeds up over time.
The SIP
Small bets, long game
A fixed amount put into an investment on the same day every month.
The Credit Trap
Minimum payment, maximum cost
Borrowed money that costs more the longer it is left unpaid.
EMI
The cost of "easy"
A large price broken into equal monthly payments, with interest added.
Insurance
A bet you hope to lose
Many people pay a small amount so that the few who need it get a lot.
The Bank Account
Where your money lives
A record at a bank showing money held in a person's name.
UPI
How India skipped the queue
India's system for sending money between any two bank accounts instantly.
Taxation
The membership fee for everything shared
A share of what people earn and spend, collected to pay for shared things.
GST
One tax instead of seventeen
One tax on the final price, replacing a chain of separate taxes.
Consumer Rights
What the law says when a product fails
The protections a buyer is owed by law when something goes wrong.
The Ponzi Scheme
Returns from nowhere
A fake investment that pays old investors with new investors' money.
Phishing
The message that pretends to be someone you trust
A message pretending to come from someone trusted, to steal information.
Opportunity Cost
The price of what you did not choose
The value of the best thing given up to get something else.