home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!watanabe
- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: Where is the best place to stick it?
- Message-ID: <By2274.3Ip@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1992Nov18.185842.16361@tandem.com> <5669@bacon.IMSI.COM>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:30:39 GMT
- Lines: 16
-
- jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- It would be a good way to make 19% on your money, tax-free, risk-free.
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-