money smarts

17:06 Aug 27, 2013 

Merci d'avoir éclairé ma lanterne! Je ne comprenais pas l'usage de smart en tant que substantif tout en comprenant, très vaguement, le sens!

14:47 Aug 27, 2013 

Yes, you're right. Normally money smarts means being clever about money so "astuce" is very pertinent. However, I'm a little puzzled by the source sentence: "your **money smarts** develop as your needs change." In this case I guess it means that one's cleverness about money grows when changes occur in one's financial situation.

20:35 Aug 26, 2013 

... though I'm not actually familiar with the term (US?) is that a 'smart' is 'the smart thing to do' — so perhaps to some extent, 'une astuce' — but more than that, really: it would be 'the right / intelligent course of action / policy to adopt' (here, in terms of ones personal finance.
If I understand it correctly, this is trying to say that 'the best thing to do' for you is going to change with your changing needs / circumstances throughout your life...
BUT all this IS only supposition...