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Keep your head about you when signing up for and using your credit cards. A $1,000 bill on a credit card that charges 15 percent interest--low by credit card standards--will turn into $2,100 in the 14 years it takes to repay if only the minimum payment is made each month...
...paying down mortgages. Lenders are willing--even eager--to advance you cash up to the full amount of that equity. And sometimes even more. Like millions of other homeowners who have taken up the offer, you can spend the money any way you want and take years to repay--at some of the cheapest interest rates you'll ever find, even after the Federal Reserve's latest hikes...
...house I've offered to pay my daughter to take on jobs that I might otherwise pay an outsider to do, such as shoveling snow from the walk or raking leaves. But we're abandoning our allowance farce--after I repay the $257 I owe her. Fortunately for me, she has generously offered to let me retire that debt at low interest, in weekly installments--you know, kind of like an allowance...
...reading A.T., S.T., R.T., I.A...."All Serbian men had their hands in blood," he said. "If they were not directly involved in crimes, they helped the criminals. They deserve no space in Kosovo anymore." Nor, he says, did Albanians "give all this blood to stay under Serbian hands." To repay their sacrifice and to exact justice, he says, the Kosovars deserve independence...
...what could be financed out of the remaining 10.4%. Feldstein has an even better idea: keep present tax and benefit rates but have the government deposit into individual accounts an additional 2% of each worker's earnings, up to the prescribed annual taxable limit. On retirement the worker would repay Uncle Sam $3 of every $4 he or she had in the account. Taxpayers under this scheme might earn somewhat less, in total, than under Moynihan's plan--though that one-fourth share could add up over decades. On the other hand, they would run little if any risk...