Should We Pay Down the HELOC?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We have a HELOC for $38,000 and the interest rate just went up to 5.5%. Should we pay it off?
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| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 0:35.8 | It is Friday, November 11th. |
| 0:38.8 | And we are here taking the mystery out of your financial life. |
| 0:43.8 | And wow, what a day yesterday. |
| 0:45.8 | So, okay, let me just take a deep breath. |
| 0:48.8 | We got an inflation report out and the trend is moving in the right direction. |
| 0:53.8 | The CPI was up 7.7% from a year ago. |
| 0:58.8 | That was the smallest annual increase since January of this year. |
| 1:02.8 | And we also saw a drop in the core inflation rate, which excludes food and energy. |
| 1:08.8 | The core rate was up 6.3% from a year ago. |
| 1:13.8 | So this is all good news with a couple of caveats. |
| 1:17.8 | And I'll get to the markets in a second. |
| 1:19.8 | First of all, food prices are up a lot. |
| 1:22.8 | They're up 10.9% from a year ago. |
| 1:24.8 | The food part of the CPI report is 14% of CPI. |
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