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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Don't Want To Pay Off Your Student Loans?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.5842 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today's episode features Jade Warshaw & Dr. John Delony. The Ramsey Show Highlights is a quick, daily dose of advice on life and money in under ten minutes. Hear from experts like Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Dr. John Delony, George Kamel & Jade Warshaw. Part of the Ramsey Network. Delivered to you seven days a week. Budget for free with EveryDollar: Click Here Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today there's been so many

0:07.5

different narratives going around well maybe the government will come you know forgive them maybe

0:11.6

that'll be the way out maybe some legislation will be passed and there'll be caps put in place

0:16.8

maybe they should stop making the loans all together and so there's a lot of a lot of thought and a lot of

0:24.2

different opinions about this. But Yahoo Finance published an article that said, the U.S.

0:30.1

government's biggest financial asset, John, is student loan debt. I'm going to say that again.

0:40.3

The U.S. government's biggest financial asset is student loan debt. I'm going to say that again. The U.S. government's biggest financial asset is student loan debt, and I mean big time, like over $1.1 trillion. It says the value of

0:47.2

federally backed student loans held by the government has risen by more than a thousand percent

0:51.7

since the last recession and now tops at one point one trillion

0:56.4

and if you're watching on youtube you can look at this graph here student loans make up 45 percent

1:02.1

45 percent it says we hear a lot about government debt but what we don't hear about our government

1:07.2

assets and so we're looking at this. And the Federal Reserve's financial account data

1:11.5

found that the student loans make up the largest financial asset

1:14.3

held by the federal government by a huge margin.

1:18.6

So I say all that to say, if we're waiting around

1:22.7

for the government to do something in the way of maybe not making loans, maybe forgiving your

1:31.1

loans, anything that's going to cause this to not be an asset. I think that we're going to be

1:36.0

waiting until the cows come home is basically what I'm saying. Hell is basically going to have

1:39.1

to freeze over before that takes place. And then, and I'm saying that because here's, I want to light a fear under people's

1:47.1

butt right now, a fire and a fear to go, hey, I can't just be willy-nilly about this.

1:53.0

Like I can't lolly gag with my student loans any longer.

1:55.8

I've got to come up with a plan to pay them off because.

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