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Ask HTM - Payoff My Mortgage or Hold as Cash, Tapping a 401(k) to Pay Off a Credit Card, and MVNO's for Everyone to Save Money #298

How to Money

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Investing, Education, Business

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off the week by answering your questions! And if you have a question for us, we’d love for you to submit your own via HowToMoney.com/ask/ , send us your voice memo!

1 - How can I get a conversation started with my girlfriend about personal finances?

2 - Should I pay off my mortgage or should I hang on to that in cash?

3 - Does it make sense to borrow from my 401(k) in order to pay off a credit card?

4 - Is it worth it to stick with a budget cell phone provider?

5 - How can I avoid underpayment penalties from the IRS and should I set up a retirement account through my business or set it up as a personal account?


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0:00.0

On the new podcast, The Turning, Room of Mirrors, we look beneath the delicate veneer of American ballet

0:06.3

and the culture formed by its most influential figure, George Balonstein.

0:11.0

He used to say,

0:11.9

What are you looking at, dear? You can't see you only I can see you.

0:16.8

What you're doing is larger than yourself, almost like a religion.

0:20.3

Like, he was a god.

0:21.7

Listen to The Turning, Room of Mirrors on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:28.7

The war on drugs is the excuse our government uses to get away with absolutely insane stuff.

0:35.7

Stuff that'll piss you off.

0:36.7

The cops, why are they just like, looting?

0:39.7

They're just like pillaging.

0:40.7

They just have way better names for what they call, like what we would call a jack move or being robbed.

0:47.7

They call it civil answer for it.

0:52.7

Be sure to listen to The War on Drugs on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.7

When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard.

1:11.7

This is what it sounds like inside the box-top.

1:14.7

And into The City of the Rails.

1:17.7

There I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful, that it changed me.

1:22.7

But the Rails do that to everyone.

1:24.7

There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're going to find them there in the Rails yard.

1:29.7

Undenail Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us and the City of the Rails.

1:34.7

Listen to City of the Rails on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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