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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!bacon!jordan
- From: jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Where is the best place to stick it?
- Message-ID: <5669@bacon.IMSI.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:37:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.185842.16361@tandem.com>
- Sender: news@bacon.IMSI.COM
- Organization: Investment Management Services Inc., NYC
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- Steven R. Pearson <pearson_steven@tandem.com> writes:
-
- it might be wise to pay off any expensive debt you have ...
-
- I see this all the time, and I just don't understand it. The way I see
- it, current debt service is just a cash-flow item. If I were a
- student, living a student life, and I suddenly inherited $100k, I sure
- as heck wouldn't pay down my credit cards. All that would do is
- decrease dramatically my $100k, and increase only marginally my cash
- flow. Since this money is indeed "found" I would have had to deal with
- cash flow and current debt service anyway. I should continue doing
- that (after all, I enjoyed the goods I purchased on credit, now I
- should pay for them).
-
- I think it's important psychologically to keep your investments and
- your quality of life separate.
-
- /jordan
-