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- From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Where is the best place to stick it?
- Message-ID: <26983@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:20:23 GMT
- References: <mT7LuB4w161w@cdthq.UUCP> <5685@bacon.IMSI.COM>
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- In article <5685@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
- >Gary Heston <gary@cdthq.UUCP> writes:
-
- Wipe out the credit cards, put the rest in investments, and put
- the money you were paying on the cards into either more
- investments or partying.
-
- >There's the point: people who pay off that debt will *not* be inclined
- >to "pay back" the original lump. In a sense, if you inherit $100k, and
- >you use $20k of it to pay off credit card debt, you've "loaned" one
- >account to pay another. Now you're losing return on that $20k. If you
- >don't take the original cash flow you were paying for debt service and
- >"repay" the $100k account, you're down for the long run.
-
- >The numbers make sense: it's the actions of individuals who will in
- >fact party instead of putting the money back that leads me to say
- >"stick with the cash flow" of debt service.
-
- >/jordan
-
- Well, Jordan, I suspect that everyone who has advised to get rid of
- debt has assumed that the inheritee would be reasonably prudent.
- (I think this is very wise advice, BTW.)
- If someone is going to act as you describe above, then they're
- pretty foolish and won't prosper no matter what. Its only a question
- of if the $100K lasts them 6 months or 3 years (look at UW football
- player Billy Joe Hobert....).
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