Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronavirus Market Update. It is Sunday, April 19th. I just said to

Mark, what's going on today? What should I talk about? And he goes, well goes well you know what today is you're making your sauce today because I said that I was going to be cooking something a little bit more time consuming every weekend during this pandemic.

I'm starting to do that with a little more regularity.

Mark sent me his very special recipe for red sauce with a little pork and so that's what the

Jewish girls gonna tackle pretty good huh? All right I hope you guys are doing

well thank you so much for listening.

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Holly writes that she heard me on the radio

and she thought I was great that's nice.

Question I have credit card debt of $4,000.

Is it better to have debt consolidation on a new card or apply for a small loan through a bank?

Thank you, Holly. Well, I think that what you could do is, first of all, I don't think you need debt consolidation

necessarily what's the interest rate on this credit card number one number two do

you have any other money that you could use to actually help pay this off?

Could you apply for a small installment loan through an online lender?

Sure, but we need some more information it depends what the alternatives are it depends how

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