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thewh00sel  United States. Apr 11 2014 17:58. Posts 2734 | | |
| | Feb Goal Progress
Pay off auto loans of ~16k
8% complete
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25% complete: 12k left @ 4.3%
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Put a dent in student loans of ~60k
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6.6% complete: 56k left @6.8%
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Invest ~25-30k outside of any day-trading or sports betting ventures.
0% complete
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Invested about 15k into various index funds and 2k into part ownership of two bitcoin miners
~50% complete
| | Play a few less tournaments during the WSOP (and win one)
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| | 1800 hours of cash games
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21% complete: 387 hours. Slacking here and definitely off pace.
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65% Saving rate for the year
Average Savings Rate: 77%
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Average savings rate: 80%
So I'm exceeding most goals due to running well for the first part of the year. Should have put that as one of my goals as well, heh.
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bigredhoss Cook Islands. Apr 11 2014 20:05. Posts 8649 | | | |
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patmcgroin Afghanistan. Apr 11 2014 21:03. Posts 830 | | |
wow student loans in the US have interest rates of 6.6%? even the official cash rate is ~0%?
Seems ridiculous.
In Australia, student help loans have interest of our price inflation index, currently around ~2%.
Sweet country. |
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Lol 6.6% if your lucky. Back in 2004 I got my student loans at around 4.4% but these days it is much worse.
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| | On April 11 2014 19:05 bigredhoss wrote:
teach me |
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YouGoTGoT United States. Apr 12 2014 10:48. Posts 1118 | | |
Im sure whoosel is aware already but I suggest anyone interested in learning how to manage their personal finances and begin saving at a high rate read the mr. money mustache blog. As someone making 6 figures and still not saving much that man really opened my eyes. |
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RiKD United States. Apr 13 2014 10:44. Posts 9041 | | |
Great shit.
Would be interested to hear about your opinions on index funds + bitcoin investments?
Also, where you put the "savings"? |
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Mariuslol Norway. Apr 14 2014 01:41. Posts 4742 | | |
And how do you make so pretty babies? |
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what's the rationale behind saving/investing before paying off all of your debts first? higher rate of return on investments and lower interest rate on debts? |
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thewh00sel United States. Apr 16 2014 10:45. Posts 2734 | | |
| | On April 15 2014 22:06 collegesucks wrote:
what's the rationale behind saving/investing before paying off all of your debts first? higher rate of return on investments and lower interest rate on debts? |
Two main reasons.
#1. Insurance. The idea is that it is protection from big downswings. The same reason that I'm paying off car loans @ 4.3% before paying off student loans @ 6.8%. Leaving me with some liquidity in case I needed a largeish amount of money due to breakeven stretch/downswing lasting up to a year or two I would be able to cash out investments and potentially sell a vehicle for the cash and borrow to finance another one. Unlikely, but it has happened to me before.
#2. Inflation hedge. I don't have a ton of faith in an economic recovery; so keeping debt is like an extra investment. If you think that the U.S. dollar is going to lose value, then you can wait to pay debt with inflated dollars later, or not at all if no one can pay due to hyper inflation. |
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That actually makes a lot of sense. I thought it was a curious deviation from normal financial advice but it all makes sense from a poker player's point of view. |
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