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White Coat Investor Podcast

WCI #123: Will the Politicians Cancel your Student Loan Debt?

White Coat Investor Podcast

Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor

Investing, Business, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

"Aren't all the Democratic candidates going to cancel student loan debt? I'll just wait, because if I pay them back and then they cancel them, I'm out of luck." Now for some of you this might sound crazy but this is the thought process for many people right now. Should people be changing their student loan plan based on the discussion of canceling and forgiving loans that politicians are currently having? We discuss this question in today's episode. But bear in mind presidential candidates make a lot of promises that they don't keep. We have a long history of that. Plus a lot would need to happen for this to take place like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren being elected and then getting a plan to cancel student loan debt through Congress. But even more than all that historically legislature like this does not favor the top 1% of income earners in our country. As a physician the chance that any kind of forgiveness or cancelation of student loans will really make a difference in the amount of money you owe is very low. We also discuss in this episode gender neutral disability insurance policies, VTI or VTSAX in a taxable account, what to do with a traditional IRA, disclaimers for physicians giving personal finance lectures, when to cancel your disability policy, dealing with multiple 401(k)s, and the most tax efficient investment to put in a taxable account. See show notes at https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/will-the-politicians-cancel-your-student-loan-debt-podcast-123/

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Transcript

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This is the White Coat Investor Podcast, where we help those who wear the white coat get a fair shake on Wall Street.

0:06.0

We've been helping doctors and other high-income professionals stop doing dumb things with their money since 2011.

0:12.0

Here is your host, Dr. Jim Dolly.

0:15.0

Welcome to White Coat Investor Podcast

0:20.0

number one 23.

0:21.0

Will the politicians pay off your student loans welcome back to the

0:24.7

podcast I hope you've been enjoying it we sure enjoy making these podcasts for you and

0:29.2

hope you find them useful and of least mildly entertaining.

0:32.5

I'm told I'm not a particularly interesting speaker or podcaster,

0:36.5

but the information is really good.

0:38.0

So I hope that continues to be the case.

0:40.8

Thanks for what you do.

0:41.8

Your work is not easy. I was reminded of that yesterday while seeing a patient with delusional parasitosis.

0:48.0

The interesting part about this particular case, though, is the patient also brought in her partner who she was convinced

0:55.3

also had parasitosis and she had been digging into his acne fairly aggressively

1:00.9

trying to get the parasites out.

1:03.0

Always an interesting case.

1:05.0

Sometimes what you do in medicine is not that fun.

1:07.0

You don't get thank yous and in fact the patient doesn't even believe you when you tell them what the diagnosis is.

1:11.0

I just got back from climbing the Grand Teton's a wonderful trip. I went with one of the

1:16.0

PAs I worked with and her husband. We had a wonderful day up there, beautiful weather.

1:20.8

You could see all across Idaho and a good chunk of Wyoming and really had a wonderful time.

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