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Radical Personal Finance

589-How to Manage Cash While You Pay Off Your Credit Cards

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Credit Cards can be really useful. But contrary to popular opinion, they're not the most useful when you're broke. They're more useful when you have a little cash.

Enjoy this excerpt from my new course "How to Borrow Money Safely and Never Pay Interest Using Credit Cards."

And then go buy it here: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/creditcardcourse

Use "CREDITCARDTEN" to save $10. Until Monday only.

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

0:03.2

insight and encouragement you need, live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for

0:07.8

financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:10.5

Today we continue our series on credit cards. This week we are enjoying and

0:15.2

advertising the new launch of my newest course called How to Borrow Money

0:20.0

Safely and Never Pay interest using credit cards.

0:24.0

And on Monday we began with one of my arguments in favor of credit cards.

0:28.8

That argument was about the safety of credit card debt. On Tuesday I shared with you an additional argument called

0:35.2

credit card loans can provide a way to privately purchase goods and services.

0:38.5

Now there are three more arguments for credit cards extensively discussed in the course as well as two extremely

0:45.0

important arguments against credit cards because although I stand

0:49.2

entirely behind the idea that credit cards can be very safe, we must of course acknowledge that

0:54.7

credit cards can be very dangerous and risky and they have unique risks that

1:00.0

need to be considered. The second thing is although credit cards can be very cheap they can

1:04.4

be extremely expensive and they have important costs that need to be considered.

1:09.2

Now you are a sentient knowledgeable person, you know those is obvious, but don't overlook them because they're obvious.

1:16.9

But with the strategies that I outline in the course, you can put it in place measures of safety

1:21.6

to protect yourself. Now in today's episode I'm going to share with

1:24.6

you another audio excerpt from the course and this is much later in the course and it's

1:28.4

called how to manage cash while you pay off your credit cards. Most people who wind up in credit card debt get

1:38.6

there out of desperation and they get there too late and they wind up using up all of their money, which makes them exclusively

1:47.4

reliant on credit cards, which puts them in a very dangerous position as you'll

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