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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Didn't Realize My 48% Interest Rate Was This Bad

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

I'm a widow. I'm 66. I have a small business that's kind of struggling.

0:12.5

Recently had heart surgery, et cetera, et cetera, no kids, no family, two dogs.

0:18.0

Two dogs live in social security and some from my business and credit cards.

0:24.1

I managed to get into a situation.

0:27.3

I borrowed money from a personal loan, an online personal loan company nationally advertised, all that kind of good stuff.

0:37.0

Went through the whole process because I wanted to pay off some debt, you know, to get

0:41.9

rid of my credit cards and to invest in a vehicle for my mobile salon and managed to find

0:52.2

out that the interest rate is somewhere around 48%.

0:55.0

Oh my goodness.

0:57.0

And it's front-loaded.

0:59.0

I mean, I heard the 48% but I thought, that's no big deal because I'm going to pay this off like very quickly.

1:06.0

And so I didn't pay attention enough to hear that it's front-loaded.

1:11.8

So the amount of money that I borrowed...

1:14.8

Most of your payments are going to interest, essentially, not touching the principal.

1:19.4

How much was the loan for it?

1:20.9

Half and half is what it is.

1:22.9

I ran a thing this morning.

1:25.5

How much...

1:26.1

How much was the loan?

1:29.4

For $29,000.

1:31.4

And how soon were you planning to pay that off when you just stared 48% and went,

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