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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #255 on: January 12, 2021, 03:45:13 pm »
bragging (...) to cover up deep-seeded unhappiness

AKA the raison d'etre of dick-measuring contests?
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #256 on: January 12, 2021, 03:50:01 pm »
Maybe you actually have an idea on an investment that would make you way more money than the savings that will accrue from plowing more of your disposable income into your mortgage



Apparently bitcoin can be very lucrative, as long as you don't forget your password.

yikes...$220 million
There has to be a way to get around that Ironkey

this is a scary fact too
around 20 percent — currently worth around $140 billion — appear to be in lost or otherwise stranded wallets,


I knew a guy who mined bitcoin back in the day
he had about $20k around 2011...and someone hacked his wallet and stole it all
would be worth millions today
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #257 on: January 12, 2021, 04:42:10 pm »
bragging (...) to cover up deep-seeded unhappiness

AKA the raison d'etre of dick-measuring contests?
Exactly.
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #259 on: January 15, 2021, 05:30:59 pm »
I couldn't imagine what it would have been like to get a loan in 1983
30 yr fixed at 17.5%!
and that was the avg, if you had bad credit it was surely close to 20%

My FIL still brags about how they got all these 18% CD's then (again, low mortgage rates really hurt peoples ability to save)
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #260 on: January 15, 2021, 05:38:42 pm »
I couldn't imagine what it would have been like to get a loan in 1983
30 yr fixed at 17.5%!
and that was the avg, if you had bad credit it was surely close to 20%

My FIL still brags about how they got all these 18% CD's then (again, low mortgage rates really hurt peoples ability to save)


There was a point where my dad was getting over 20% a year on his deposits in a US bank!! Of course there was more inflation but still

Of course he blew all his savings multiple times... urghhh.. he might as well have spent it

Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #261 on: January 15, 2021, 05:41:16 pm »
honestly, I think the USgovt should incentivize savings
and make some sort of tax code thing where if you have less than 100K in savings in the bank you earn 5%
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #262 on: January 15, 2021, 05:50:40 pm »
Of course he blew all his savings multiple times... urghhh.. he might as well have spent it
How did he blow it without spending it?
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #263 on: January 15, 2021, 05:54:22 pm »
Ok bad investments ..

I guess that’s spending but it’s not like we ever spent it on ourselves

Then he lost his mind and who knows what he did.. you know how old people lose their minds..

It’s not for lack of my trying to help him

But long story and very bad memories

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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #264 on: January 15, 2021, 08:43:47 pm »
honestly, I think the USgovt should incentivize savings
and make some sort of tax code thing where if you have less than 100K in savings in the bank you earn 5%

Well, that's one way to kill economic growth....
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hutch

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« Reply #265 on: January 15, 2021, 09:10:23 pm »
I don’t know... seems like something might be wrong with an economic model that requires most of its people not have a couple of hundred bucks saved...


Or not..maybe our economy is perfect cause we are number one!  Never mind how long

Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #266 on: January 15, 2021, 11:05:07 pm »
honestly, I think the USgovt should incentivize savings
and make some sort of tax code thing where if you have less than 100K in savings in the bank you earn 5%

Well, that's one way to kill economic growth....
why because it worse to encourage people to save and not blow their entire paycheck week after week and being in debt their entire life

Our economy is based on every American spending all their money on useless consumer goods and keeping up with the joneses
It's kinda worked for the last 70 years, but I don't think it's sustainable...but boy did the 1% really get rich off that model

I mean they always try to juice the market by helping the wealthy get more...so they will 'hopefully' put it back into the business and hire more
but it NEVER works that way, they do stock buy backs and give executives bonuses.

Say we look at the trump tax cut, what if they flipped that and helped the lower end of Americans...do you think we'd come out on the other end a lot worse.  We'll never know because that's not how our gov't operates, corporations are people and have votes
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #267 on: January 16, 2021, 12:05:34 am »
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #268 on: January 16, 2021, 10:05:51 am »
honestly, I think the USgovt should incentivize savings
and make some sort of tax code thing where if you have less than 100K in savings in the bank you earn 5%

Well, that's one way to kill economic growth....
So you’re not a fan of Hutch getting named Active Fed Chair?
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
« Reply #269 on: January 16, 2021, 10:31:07 am »
Hey now I am an Econ major from U of R!!!