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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: Where is the best place to stick it?
- Message-ID: <By79sI.A6u@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <mT7LuB4w161w@cdthq.UUCP> <5685@bacon.IMSI.COM>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:02:42 GMT
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- 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
-
- Since the return on the $20k is unlikely to exceed the
- cost of financing the debt with the credit card company,
- the person is essentially lending his money for free.
-
- It would seem to me that it would be easier and cheaper
- to simply burn the credit cards and replace them with
- an American Express card. This would enforce the
- discipline of paying off the card each month, and
- would save $4,000 a year in interest charges.
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-