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Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - Financial literacy advocate
Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll overcame poverty, illiteracy, incarceration and a lack of outside support to become a stock investor, creator and teacher of his own financial literacy philosophy.

Why you should listen

The media calls Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll the "Oracle of San Quentin" for his stock picking prowess and ability to translate financial information into simple language for his students.

Carroll grew up in Oakland, California surrounded by poverty. In 1996, at 17 years old, he committed a robbery where a man was killed. He turned himself in and ended up an illiterate teenager in prison with a 54-to-life sentence. While in prison, the stock market captured his attention, but due to his illiteracy he couldn't learn more about it. Motivating by the lure of financial gaining, he taught himself how to read at 20-21 years old, and then he started studying the stock market. Carroll's role models changed from drug dealers and sports figures to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He wanted others to learn this new way of making money.

When Carroll arrived at San Quentin in 2012, he met Troy Williams, who helped him start the Financial Literacy Program. Together they created the philosophy F.E.E.L (Financial Empowerment Emotional Literacy) that teaches people to recognize how their emotions affect their financial decision, and how to separate the two.

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Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: How I learned to read -- and trade stocks -- in prison

Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: Como aprendi a ler -- e a investir na bolsa de valores -- na prisão

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Ter educação financeira não é uma competência, é um estilo de vida. Aprenda com Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll. Como presidiário, Caroll conhece o poder do dinheiro. Na prisão, ele aprendeu sozinho a ler, e a investir na bolsa de valores, e agora compartilha uma mensagem simples, poderosa: precisamos ser mais sábios com nosso dinheiro.
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Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll overcame poverty, illiteracy, incarceration and a lack of outside support to become a stock investor, creator and teacher of his own financial literacy philosophy. Full bio

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00:12
I was 14 years old
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Aos 14 anos,
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inside of a bowling alley,
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arrombei um fliperama num boliche
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burglarizing an arcade game,
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00:19
and upon exiting the building
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e, ao sair do prédio,
00:21
a security guard grabbed my arm, so I ran.
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um segurança agarrou
meu braço, e eu corri.
00:23
I ran down the street,
and I jumped on top of a fence.
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Disparei rua abaixo
e tentei pular uma cerca.
00:26
And when I got to the top,
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Mas, quando cheguei no topo,
00:28
the weight of 3,000 quarters
in my book bag
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o peso das 3 mil moedas
na minha mochila me jogou no chão.
00:30
pulled me back down to the ground.
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00:32
So when I came to, the security guard
was standing on top of me,
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Quando dei por mim,
havia um segurança em cima de mim,
00:35
and he said, "Next time you little punks
steal something you can carry."
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falando: "Da próxima vez, seu bostinha,
roube algo que possa carregar".
(Risos)
00:39
(Laughter)
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00:41
I was taken to juvenile hall
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Fui levado para o juizado de menores
00:43
and when I was released
into the custody of my mother,
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e, quando fui solto
sob a custódia da minha mãe,
a primeira coisa que meu tio
falou foi: "Como você foi pego?"
00:47
the first words my uncle said was,
"How'd you get caught?"
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00:50
I said, "Man, the book bag was too heavy."
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Eu disse: "Cara, o saco
estava pesado demais".
00:52
He said, "Man, you weren't supposed
to take all the quarters."
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Ele falou: "Pra que você
foi pegar todas as moedas?"
Falei: "Eram pequenas. Você queria o quê?"
00:55
I said, "Man, they were small.
What am I supposed to do?"
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00:58
And 10 minutes later, he took me
to burglarize another arcade game.
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E, dez minutos depois, ele me levou
para arrombar outro fliperama.
A gente precisava de gasolina
pra chegar em casa.
01:03
We needed gas money to get home.
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01:05
That was my life.
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Essa era a minha vida.
01:07
I grew up in Oakland, California,
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Cresci em Oakland, na Califórnia,
01:09
with my mother and members
of my immediate family
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com minha mãe e familiares próximos
01:11
addicted to crack cocaine.
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viciados em cocaína crack.
01:13
My environment consisted
of living with family, friends,
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Meu mundo era viver
com a família, amigos
01:18
and homeless shelters.
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e em abrigos para sem-teto.
01:21
Oftentimes, dinner was served
in breadlines and soup kitchens.
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Muitas vezes, nosso jantar
era em filas de pão e sopões.
01:25
The big homie told me this:
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Um dos meus "manos" me disse:
01:27
money rules the world
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"O dinheiro é quem manda no mundo
01:29
and everything in it.
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e tudo nele.
01:30
And in these streets, money is king.
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E, nestas ruas, o dinheiro é rei.
01:33
And if you follow the money,
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Se você seguir o dinheiro,
01:34
it'll lead you to the bad guy
or the good guy.
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ele vai te levar
para o bandido ou o mocinho".
01:38
Soon after, I committed my first crime,
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Pouco depois, cometi meu primeiro crime,
01:40
and it was the first time
that I was told that I had potential
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e foi a primeira vez que ouvi
que eu tinha potencial
01:43
and felt like somebody believed in me.
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e que alguém acreditava em mim.
Ninguém nunca disse que eu poderia ser
advogado, médico ou engenheiro.
01:46
Nobody ever told me
that I could be a lawyer,
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01:48
doctor or engineer.
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01:50
I mean, how was I supposed to do that?
I couldn't read, write or spell.
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Quer dizer, como ia ser alguém?
Não sabia ler, escrever
nem soletrar: eu era analfabeto.
01:53
I was illiterate.
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Por isso sempre achei
que o crime era a saída.
01:54
So I always thought
crime was my way to go.
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01:59
And then one day
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Então, um belo dia,
conversando com um cara,
02:01
I was talking to somebody
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02:02
and he was telling me
about this robbery that we could do.
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ele me falou de um roubo pra fazer.
02:06
And we did it.
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E fizemos.
02:09
The reality was that I was growing up
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A verdade é que eu vivia
02:10
in the strongest
financial nation in the world,
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no país economicamente
mais poderoso do mundo,
02:13
the United States of America,
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os Estados Unidos da América,
02:15
while I watched my mother
stand in line at a blood bank
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enquanto via minha mãe
na fila de um banco de sangue
02:20
to sell her blood for 40 dollars
just to try to feed her kids.
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vendendo seu sangue por US$ 40
para tentar alimentar os filhos.
02:25
She still has the needle marks
on her arms to day to show for that.
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Ela ainda tem as marcas de agulha
nos braços para provar.
Assim, nunca liguei pra minha comunidade.
02:29
So I never cared about my community.
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02:31
They didn't care about my life.
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Eles não se importavam comigo.
02:32
Everybody there was doing what they
were doing to take what they wanted,
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Todo mundo fazia o que fazia
para pegar o que queria:
os traficantes, os assaltantes,
o banco de sangue.
02:36
the drug dealers,
the robbers, the blood bank.
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Todo mundo conseguia a droga do dinheiro.
02:38
Everybody was taking blood money.
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02:40
So I got mine by any means necessary.
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Daí, eu pegava a minha
parte do jeito que dava.
02:41
I got mine.
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Eu garantia o meu.
02:43
Financial literacy
really did rule the world,
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O conhecimento financeiro
realmente dominava o mundo,
02:46
and I was a child slave to it
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e eu era um garoto escravo disso...
02:48
following the bad guy.
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seguindo o bandido.
02:52
At 17 years old, I was arrested
for robbery and murder
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Aos 17 anos, fui preso por latrocínio,
02:55
and I soon learned that finances in prison
rule more than they did on the streets,
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e logo aprendi que as finanças na prisão
mandam mais do que nas ruas,
02:59
so I wanted in.
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então eu queria entender.
03:01
One day, I rushed to grab
the sports page of the newspaper
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Um dia, corri pra pegar
o caderno de esportes do jornal
03:04
so my celly could read it to me,
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para o colega de cela ler pra mim
03:06
and I accidentally
picked up the business section.
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e, sem querer, peguei
o caderno de economia,
03:08
And this old man said,
"Hey youngster, you pick stocks?"
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e um velho me disse: "Ei, jovenzinho,
você aplica na bolsa?"
03:12
And I said, "What's that?"
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E eu: "O que é isso?"
03:13
He said, "That's the place
where white folks keep all their money."
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E ele: "É o lugar onde os brancos
guardam o dinheiro deles".
(Risos)
03:16
(Laughter)
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E foi a primeira vez que vi
uma luzinha de esperança,
03:17
And it was the first time
that I saw a glimpse of hope,
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03:21
a future.
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um futuro.
03:23
He gave me this brief description
of what stocks were,
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Ele descreveu brevemente o que eram ações,
03:26
but it was just a glimpse.
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mas foi só uma luzinha.
03:30
I mean, how was I supposed to do it?
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Mas como eu ia mexer com aquilo?
03:32
I couldn't read, write or spell.
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Não sabia ler, escrever nem soletrar.
03:34
The skills that I had developed
to hide my illiteracy
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Minhas estratégias para esconder
meu analfabetismo
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no longer worked in this environment.
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não funcionavam mais naquele ambiente.
03:39
I was trapped in a cage,
prey among predators,
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Estava atrás das grades,
era uma presa entre predadores,
03:42
fighting for freedom I never had.
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lutando pela liberdade que nunca tive.
03:44
I was lost, tired,
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Estava perdido, cansado
03:46
and I was out of options.
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e sem opções.
03:49
So at 20 years old,
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Então, aos 20 anos de idade,
03:50
I did the hardest thing
I'd ever done in my life.
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fiz a coisa mais difícil
que já tinha feito na vida.
03:54
I picked up a book,
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Peguei um livro,
03:57
and it was the most agonizing
time of my life,
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e foi a coisa mais
torturante da minha vida:
04:01
trying to learn how to read,
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tentar aprender a ler,
04:03
the ostracizing from my family,
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rejeitado pela minha família,
04:05
the homies.
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pelos manos.
04:08
It was rough, man.
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Foi difícil, cara.
04:09
It was a struggle.
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Foi uma peleja.
04:11
But little did I know
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Mal sabia eu
04:12
I was receiving the greatest gifts
I had ever dreamed of:
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que estava recebendo o maior presente
com que jamais tinha sonhado:
04:16
self-worth,
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valor próprio,
04:18
knowledge, discipline.
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conhecimento, disciplina.
04:21
I was so excited to be reading that I read
everything I could get my hands on:
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Estava tão empolgado de ler
que lia tudo que me caía às mãos:
04:24
candy wrappers, clothing logos,
street signs, everything.
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papel de bala, etiqueta de roupas,
placas de rua, tudo.
04:28
I was just reading stuff!
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Simplesmente lia tudo!
04:29
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
04:30
Just reading stuff.
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Qualquer coisa.
04:33
I was so excited to know how to read
and know how to spell.
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Estava tão empolgado
de saber ler e soletrar.
04:36
The homie came up, said,
"Man, what you eating?"
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O mano chegava:
"Cara, o que você está comendo?"
04:39
I said, "C-A-N-D-Y, candy."
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Eu respondia: "B-A-L-A, bala".
04:40
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
04:43
He said, "Let me get some."
I said, "N-O. No."
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Ele falava: "Dá um pouco aí".
Eu respondia: "N-Ã-O".
04:45
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
04:46
It was awesome.
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Era incrível.
04:48
I mean, I can actually now
for the first time in my life read.
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Quero dizer, pela primeira vez
na vida eu conseguia ler.
04:51
The feeling that I got
from it was amazing.
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Isso me deu uma sensação incrível.
04:55
And then at 22, feeling myself,
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Então, aos 22 anos, me "achando",
04:58
feeling confident,
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me sentindo confiante,
05:00
I remembered what the OG told me.
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lembrei do que o velho me disse.
05:03
So I picked up the business section
of the newspaper.
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Daí, peguei o caderno
de economia do jornal.
05:07
I wanted to find these rich white folks.
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Queria conhecer esses brancos ricos.
05:09
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
05:12
So I looked for that glimpse.
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Então procurei aquela luzinha.
05:15
As I furthered my career
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Enquanto seguia na carreira
05:17
in teaching others how to
financially manage money and invest,
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de ensinar as pessoas
a administrar seu dinheiro e investir,
05:21
I soon learned that I had to take
responsibility for my own actions.
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logo entendi que tinha de assumir
a responsabilidade pelos meus atos.
05:24
True, I grew up
in a very complex environment,
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Verdade, cresci num ambiente
muito complexo,
05:27
but I chose to commit crimes,
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mas escolhi cometer crimes,
05:29
and I had to own up to that.
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e eu tinha de assumir isso.
05:31
I had to take responsibility
for that, and I did.
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Tinha de assumir essa
responsabilidade, e foi o que fiz.
05:33
I was building a curriculum
that could teach incarcerated men
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Eu estava preparando um curso
para ensinar presidiários
05:36
how to manage money
through prison employments.
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a administrar o dinheiro ganho na prisão.
05:40
Properly managing our lifestyle
would provide transferrable tools
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Saber administrar nosso estilo de vida
nos fornece ferramentas
05:43
that we can use to manage money
when we reenter society,
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para gerenciar o dinheiro
quando voltarmos pra sociedade,
05:47
like the majority of people did
who didn't commit crimes.
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como faz a maioria das pessoas
que não comete crimes.
05:50
Then I discovered
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Então descobri
05:52
that according to MarketWatch,
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que, segundo MarketWatch,
05:54
over 60 percent of the American population
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mais de 60% da população norte-americana
05:57
has under 1,000 dollars in savings.
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tem menos de US$ 1 mil em economias.
06:00
Sports Illustrated said that
over 60 percent of NBA players
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A Sports Illustrated diz
que mais de 60% dos jogadores da NBA
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and NFL players go broke.
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e da NFL vão à falência.
06:05
40 percent of marital problems
derive from financial issues.
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E 40% dos problemas conjugais
se originam de questões financeiras.
06:09
What the hell?
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Puxa vida!
06:10
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
06:12
You mean to tell me
that people worked their whole lives,
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Significava que essas pessoas
trabalhavam a vida toda,
06:15
buying cars, clothes,
homes and material stuff
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compravam carros, roupas,
casas, coisas materiais,
06:17
but were living check to check?
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mas viviam no sufoco.
06:20
How in the world were members of society
going to help incarcerated individuals
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Como é que os membros da sociedade
iam ajudar presidiários
voltarem à sociedade se não conseguiam
administrar suas coisas?
06:24
back into society
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06:25
if they couldn't manage they own stuff?
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06:28
We screwed.
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Ferrou!
06:29
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
06:31
I needed a better plan.
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Eu precisava de um plano melhor.
06:34
This is not going to work out too well.
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Isso não ia dar certo.
06:37
So ...
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Então...
06:39
I thought.
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pensei:
06:43
I now had an obligation
to meet those on the path
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agora tenho a obrigação
de conhecer aqueles nessa situação
06:48
and help,
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e ajudar,
06:49
and it was crazy because
I now cared about my community.
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e foi uma loucura, porque agora
eu me importava com minha comunidade.
06:52
Wow, imagine that.
I cared about my community.
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Vejam só: eu me importava
com minha comunidade.
06:56
Financial illiteracy is a disease
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O analfabetismo financeiro é uma doença
06:58
that has crippled minorities
and the lower class in our society
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que sabota minorias
e classes baixas em nossa sociedade
07:02
for generations and generations,
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por gerações e gerações,
07:04
and we should be furious about that.
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e deveríamos ficar uma fera com isso.
07:06
Ask yourselves this:
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Perguntem-se o seguinte:
07:08
How can 50 percent
of the American population
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como pode 50% da população norte-americana
07:11
be financially illiterate in a nation
driven by financial prosperity?
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ser financeiramente analfabeta numa nação
movida pela prosperidade financeira?
07:17
Our access to justice, our social status,
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Nosso acesso à justiça,
nosso status social,
07:19
living conditions, transportation and food
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condições de vida,
transporte e alimentação,
07:22
are all dependent on money
that most people can't manage.
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tudo depende do dinheiro
que a maioria não consegue administrar.
07:26
It's crazy!
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É muito louco!
07:27
It's an epidemic
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É uma epidemia
07:29
and a bigger danger to public safety
than any other issue.
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e um risco para a segurança pública
maior do que qualquer outra questão.
07:33
According to the California
Department of Corrections,
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Segundo o California
Department of Corrections,
07:36
over 70 percent of those incarcerated
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mais de 70% dos presidiários
07:38
have committed or have been charged
with money-related crimes:
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cometeram ou estão pagando
por crimes ligados a dinheiro:
07:42
robberies, burglaries,
fraud, larceny, distortion --
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assaltos, arrombamentos,
fraude, estelionato, extorsão,
07:47
and the list goes on.
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a lista só cresce.
07:49
Check this out:
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Vejam isto:
07:51
a typical incarcerated person
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um presidiário típico
07:54
would enter the California prison system
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entra no sistema prisional da Califórnia
07:56
with no financial education,
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sem educação financeira,
07:58
earn 30 cents an hour,
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ganha US$ 0,30 por hora,
08:00
over 800 dollars a year,
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mais de US$ 800 por ano,
08:03
with no real expenses and save no money.
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sem despesas palpáveis,
mas não economiza dinheiro.
08:06
Upon his parole, he will be given
200 dollars gate money and told,
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Ao ser solto, ele recebe
US$ 200, e falam pra ele:
08:11
"Hey, good luck, stay out of trouble.
Don't come back to prison."
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"Boa sorte, não se meta em confusão.
Não volte pra prisão".
08:14
With no meaningful preparation
or long-term financial plan,
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Sem um preparo relevante
ou um plano financeiro de longo prazo,
08:18
what does he do ... ?
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o que ele vai fazer?
08:20
At 60?
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Com 60 anos?
08:23
Get a good job,
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Conseguir um bom emprego
08:24
or go back to the very criminal behavior
that led him to prison in the first place?
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ou voltar para o comportamento criminoso
que o levou antes à prisão?
08:29
You taxpayers, you choose.
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Vocês, pagadores de impostos, escolhem.
08:31
Well, his education
already chose for him, probably.
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Provavelmente a educação
dele já escolheu por ele.
08:35
So how do we cure this disease?
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Então, como curar essa doença?
08:38
I cofounded a program
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Ajudei a fundar um programa
08:40
that we call Financial Empowerment
Emotional Literacy.
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que chamamos de Financial
Empowerment Emotional Literacy.
08:44
We call it FEEL,
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Chamamos de FEEL, sentir,
08:46
and it teaches how do you separate
your emotional decisions
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e ele ensina como separar
nossas decisões emocionais
08:49
from your financial decisions,
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de nossas decisões financeiras,
08:51
and the four timeless rules
to personal finance:
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e as quatro regras atemporais
para a finança pessoal:
08:54
the proper way to save,
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o jeito certo de economizar,
08:57
control your cost of living,
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como controlar seus gastos,
09:00
borrow money effectively
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como pedir dinheiro emprestado
09:02
and diversify your finances
by allowing your money to work for you
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e como diversificar suas finanças,
deixando seu dinheiro trabalhar para você
09:05
instead of you working for it.
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em vez de trabalhar por ele.
09:07
Incarcerated people need these life skills
before we reenter society.
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Presidiários precisam dessas competências
antes de voltar para a sociedade.
09:13
You can't have full rehabilitation
without these life skills.
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Não se consegue reabilitação completa
sem essas competências.
09:17
This idea that only professionals
can invest and manage money
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Essa ideia de que apenas profissionais
podem investir e gerenciar dinheiro
09:21
is absolutely ridiculous,
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é completamente ridícula,
09:23
and whoever told you that is lying.
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e quem falou isso está mentindo.
09:25
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
09:30
A professional is a person
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Um profissional é uma pessoa
09:32
who knows his craft better than most,
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que conhece seu ofício
melhor do que a maioria,
09:35
and nobody knows how much money
you need, have or want better than you,
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e vocês sabem melhor do que ninguém
quanto dinheiro precisam, têm ou querem,
09:40
which means you are the professional.
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o que significa que vocês
são os profissionais.
09:42
Financial literacy is not a skill,
ladies and gentlemen.
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Alfabetismo financeiro não é
uma competência, senhoras e senhores,
09:47
It's a lifestyle.
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é um estilo de vida.
09:49
Financial stability is a byproduct
of a proper lifestyle.
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Estabilidade financeira é um subproduto
de um estilo de vida adequado.
09:54
A financially sound incarcerated person
can become a taxpaying citizen,
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Um presidiário bem financeiramente
pode se tornar alguém que paga impostos,
09:58
and a financially sound
taxpaying citizen can remain one.
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e um cidadão bom pagador
de impostos, e continuar assim.
10:02
This allows us to create a bridge
between those people who we influence:
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Isso nos permite criar uma ponte
com as pessoas que influenciamos:
10:06
family, friends and those young people
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família, amigos e aqueles jovens
10:09
who still believe
that crime and money are related.
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que ainda acreditam que crime
e dinheiro andam juntos.
10:13
So let's lose the fear and anxiety
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Assim, vamos perder o medo e a ansiedade
10:16
of all the big financial words
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de todos os jargões financeiros e todo
esse nonsense que vocês ouvem por aí.
10:18
and all that other nonsense
that you've been out there hearing.
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10:21
And let's get to the heart
of what's been crippling our society
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E vamos chegar ao âmago
do que impede nossa sociedade
10:25
from taking care of your responsibility
to be better life managers.
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de cuidar da nossa responsabilidade
de sermos melhores administradores.
10:31
And let's provide a simple
and easy to use curriculum
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E vamos oferecer um curso
fácil e simples de praticar,
10:34
that gets to the heart, the heart
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que chegue ao âmago, ao centro,
10:36
of what financial empowerment
and emotional literacy really is.
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do que são realmente
empoderamento e alfabetismo financeiros.
10:40
Now, if you're sitting out here
in the audience and you said,
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Bem, se vocês sentados aí
na plateia disserem:
"Ah, tá bom, mas não dá pra mim,
não engulo essa",
10:43
"Oh yeah, well, that ain't me
and I don't buy it,"
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então assistam minhas aulas...
10:45
then come take my class --
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10:47
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
10:49
so I can show you how much money
it costs you every time you get emotional.
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para eu lhes mostrar quanto dinheiro
custa toda vez que ficam emotivos.
10:53
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Muito obrigado. Obrigado.
10:59
Thank you very much. Thank you.
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11:01
(Applause)
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(Aplausos) (Vivas)
Translated by Raissa Mendes
Reviewed by Maricene Crus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - Financial literacy advocate
Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll overcame poverty, illiteracy, incarceration and a lack of outside support to become a stock investor, creator and teacher of his own financial literacy philosophy.

Why you should listen

The media calls Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll the "Oracle of San Quentin" for his stock picking prowess and ability to translate financial information into simple language for his students.

Carroll grew up in Oakland, California surrounded by poverty. In 1996, at 17 years old, he committed a robbery where a man was killed. He turned himself in and ended up an illiterate teenager in prison with a 54-to-life sentence. While in prison, the stock market captured his attention, but due to his illiteracy he couldn't learn more about it. Motivating by the lure of financial gaining, he taught himself how to read at 20-21 years old, and then he started studying the stock market. Carroll's role models changed from drug dealers and sports figures to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He wanted others to learn this new way of making money.

When Carroll arrived at San Quentin in 2012, he met Troy Williams, who helped him start the Financial Literacy Program. Together they created the philosophy F.E.E.L (Financial Empowerment Emotional Literacy) that teaches people to recognize how their emotions affect their financial decision, and how to separate the two.

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