“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

  • @[email protected]
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    86 months ago

    What if we just financed all our kids advantages on our own credit for them and then promptly died?

    What would happen to the debt?

    Say I max out my credit card for their down payment on a house and then go “get firewood”.

    • @jaybone
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      66 months ago

      They definitely try to track large cash gifts when putting down a down payment on a house.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        16 months ago

        So I buy a bunch of gold and leave a map and then bury it in the woods and when I “get firewood.”

    • FaceDeer
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      26 months ago

      Then the credit card companies crank their interest rates higher and restrict the credit they extend to your kids to compensate. It’s not “free money.”