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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: <5685@bacon.IMSI.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:51:51 GMT
- References: <mT7LuB4w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
- Sender: news@bacon.IMSI.COM
- Organization: Investment Management Services Inc., NYC
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- 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
-