"Dude, You Have No Money"
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4.5 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm going to be 59.5 and about six more months. |
| 0:09.9 | I just had a birthday. |
| 0:11.5 | And my Roth IRA at my work, I'll be able to cash that out without any kind of penalties. |
| 0:18.9 | And it's the one where you pay your taxes in advance. |
| 0:22.5 | So I'll be able to get the whole amount out. |
| 0:24.4 | Yeah, I know about what that. |
| 0:25.4 | And we want to build a small, excuse me, a cabin. |
| 0:32.3 | And it looks like I'm going to have about $140,000 to work with. |
| 0:37.2 | And we've talked to a couple of builders, and we can get about 900 to a thousand square foot |
| 0:42.1 | place built for that. |
| 0:44.0 | My question is, would it be more prudent to pull that cash out because it will take all of it |
| 0:50.9 | and go ahead and build the cabin and be debt-free as far as any kind of a mortgage, |
| 0:57.2 | or would it be more prudent to actually borrow the money and leave that in there? |
| 1:01.5 | Because I think it's getting to the point where the compound interest is really starting to build over the years. |
| 1:08.8 | Money, that's not how compound interest works. |
| 1:11.5 | Is it not? |
| 1:12.4 | No, compound interest does not like get a running start. |
| 1:16.1 | It just is, you just make interest on whatever's there. |
| 1:19.6 | And over time, you make interest on whatever's there and whatever's there is larger over time, |
| 1:24.9 | but it's not, it doesn't mathematically get a running start. So do you |
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