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Our last show was on your Credit and how powerful of a tool it is. It can make many areas of your financial life easier.
Credit is also a great lead in to the Power of Debt. Debt gets a bad rap by most financial professionals and there is a reason. Unfortunately most individuals do not use debt as a wealth enabler instead they use it to extend their income and life style (an expensive way of faking success).
Notice the big difference between good and bad debt. Everything we discussed earlier under faking success went down in value immediately after you purchased it.
Examples of Good Debt include:
Examples of Good Debt
Clients that do residential rental property
Commercial Real Estate Investors (several million dollar loans)
The Power of having a good banker is tremendous:
Once read a great statement about debt and bankers:
Please know that there is risk just like any other investment, but if used wisely it can help you grow your wealth
So the next question is How much debt is okay?
Dave Ramsey who is another financial personality that know a few of you listen to based upon emails recommends no more than 25%
I will give you a little more latitude and let that number drift up to 35% as long as you are truly funding 15%-20% of your gross annual income to savings and retirement.
Remember that Debt is extremely powerful but it must be used responsibly.
The Biggest Pyramid Scheme in History Social Security
In about 2017 Social Security will begin to spend more for benefits than it takes in from its taxes
The Social Security trust fund does not contain either cash or saleable assets. All of the extra money that Social Security collects in taxes over what it needs to pay benefits each is spent on other government programs. They are funding Social Security with nothing more than IOUs.
A 25 year old man is predicted to receive a -.82% rate of return under the current system
Minorities receive the double whammy with lower life expectancies and the inability to pass on assets to their heirs.
June 26, 2006 Investment News Bipartisan group unveils plan to save Social Security by Sara Hansard
Under the plan, guaranteed benefits for typical workers would be reduced by 43%, the retirement age would be raised immediately, and the payroll tax cap would be raised to 90% of earnings. In addition, personal accounts equal to 3% of earnings would be mandated.
Social Security is truly a growing problem for our country that if not fixed will lead to major financial challenges
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