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The Ramsey Show

What the Fed Raising Rates Means for Your Money (Hour 1)

The Ramsey Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.538.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dave Ramsey & George Kamel answer your questions and discuss: Saving for a house during the Baby Steps, from the blog: How to Save for a House, Going on a family trip while paying off debt, How the Fed raising interest rates affects your money, "Is it fair for me to ask my wife to help pay off my debts with me?" Dealing with a convoluted estate from a deceased relative, "Should I invest in mutual funds or real estate?" Support Our Sponsor: NetSuite BetterHelp PODS Moving & Storage Neighborly Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET Join a Personality-led FPU class. Click here! Enter The Ramsey Cash Giveaway for a chance at $3,000! https://bit.ly/TRSgvwy Shop our bestsellers during the $10 Sale! https://bit.ly/TRS10Sale Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: https://bit.ly/3cEP4n6 Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: https://bit.ly/3GxiXm6 Interested in advertising on The Ramsey Show? https://ter.li/s64ye3 Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

MUSIC

0:27.8

Live from the headquarters of Ramsay's illusions broadcasting from the pods moving in storage studios.

0:33.8

It's the Ramsay show where we help people build well, do work that they love and create actual amazing relationships.

0:43.8

George Campbell Ramsay personality host of the extremely popular new George Campbell YouTube show and also the podcast called,

0:52.8

well, at least he's a co-host of it called a smart money happy hour and you can check both of them out.

0:58.8

Ian Rachel Cruz do that one together phone number here as we talk to you about your life and your money is triple eight eight two five five two two five.

1:06.8

Josh starts off this hour and I to ho falls I to ho hey Josh how are you?

1:11.8

Great how are you doing day better than I deserve what's up?

1:16.8

So a question for you my wife and I have a household income of just over 100,000 and we're completely through baby steps one through three and I'm wondering how with the current house market we don't have a home are saving up for home.

1:30.8

How do baby steps four and five change for us?

1:34.8

Why would they change?

1:37.8

Are we artists saving up for home and working towards that down pin were almost ready for the down pin.

1:43.8

Okay, have you ever heard us talk about the thing we call baby step three B?

1:47.8

I have heard a little bit. Yes.

1:49.8

Okay, that's what you're talking about. I think okay, so you finish your emergency fund at three.

1:53.8

That is the point at which you would begin to save for your home and some people push pause and don't do for and don't start saving for retirement until they build their fully

2:05.8

until they get their house down payment.

2:07.8

Some people save for a house while they're putting something in retirement up to 15% for baby step four.

2:15.8

So you can do either one or both somewhere in there.

2:18.8

So how long is this going to take to save up your down payment?

2:22.8

Will it be a specific goal?

2:24.8

I think in the mid next year we're going to have a little bit larger down payment than is required and we're doing eight percent of our household income into Roth right now.

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