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What is the first baby step

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  1. $1000 emergency fund/ 500 if less then 20,000 a year
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List the 7 baby steps

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  1. 1,000 emergency fund/500
  2. Debt snowball
  3. Fully funded emergency fund
  4. 15% invested in Roths/retirement
  5. Collage funding
  6. Pay off home early
  7. Build wealth and give
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What is the second baby step

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  1. Pay off debt w/ debt snowball
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What is the third baby step

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  1. Fully funded emergency fund

3-6 months in expenses

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What is the fourth baby step

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  1. Invest 15% of household into Roth IRAs and retirement plans
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What is the fifth baby step

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  1. Collage savings w/ ESAs
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What is the sixth baby step

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  1. Pay off home early
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What is the seventh baby step

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  1. Wealth build and give
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What are the three basics of saving money?

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  1. Emergency fund
  2. Purchases
  3. Wealth build
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What are the benefits of having an emergency fund?

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Bad things will happen, you are prepared for them

Makes big problems into an inconvenience

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What is Murphy’s law?

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If it can go wrong it will

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What is amoral?

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Neither good nor bad

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What is a great place to keep emergency fund?

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Money market account from a mutual fund company

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What does Dave Ramsey say about borrowing?

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Don’t do it, use sinking fund approach

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What is the sinking fund approach?

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Saving a fixed amount of money each month so that when the time of purchase comes, you can pay cash and negotiate

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What is compound interest?

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Is like a snowball effect where the interest starts to build up in a Roth IRA.

Based on amount of time put in and the rate of return

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What is the rate of return/interest rate?

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It affects how much interest you gain, the bigger the better

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What are the two compound interest formulas?

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FV=PV(1+r/m)^mt

A=P(1+i)^n

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What are the values of FV=PV(1+r/m)^mt

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FV= future value
PV= present value
r= annual rate of interest(decimal)
m= # of times per year the interest is compounded
t=# of years left invested
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What are the values of A=P(1+i)^n

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A= amount of money in the account
P= principal; amount of $ originally invested
i= interest rate expressed as decimal
n= # of years compounded
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What is the rule of 72?

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Helps configure the # of years or the % of an amount needed to save $

200 and needs to save 400 at 6%
72/6= 12 years

200 and needs to save for 4 years
72/4= 18%

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What are the baby steps?

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Steps you should take to get out of a financial crisis

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What is they key to saving?

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Discipline and focused emotion

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What is the 80/20 rule?

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Handling money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge

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Saving money for a purchase and letting the interest work for you rather then against you is what?

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A sinking fund

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For most people, a fully funded emergency fund will be about what?

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$10,000-15,000

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Ben and Arthur illustrate which principal?

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Compound interest

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Saving is about emotion and what?

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Contentment

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What is a good way to build discipline?

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Pre-authorized checking (PAC)

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True or false, interest is money paid to a saver by a financial institution?

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True

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What is the correct order for using your money?

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Save, pay bills, give

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How much should you invest in a single stock?

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No more then 10% in a single stock

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What is the KISS rule of investing?

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  • keep it simple stupid
  • NEVER invest purely for tax savings
  • NEVER invest using borrowed money
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What is diversification?

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Spreading around money to lower risk

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What is the risk return ratio?

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As the risk goes up, the return rate goes up

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What is liquidity?

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Availability of money

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What is a rule with liquidity?

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More liquidity, less return

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What is a C. D?

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Certificate of deposits at a bank that has a low return but ranges from 6 months to 10 years

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What are mutual funds?

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Money market mutual funds are low risk w/ check writing privileges
Great for emergency funds

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What is the risk w/ single stocks?

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Extremely high risk due to fluctuations

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What is a share?

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Piece of a company

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What is a dividend?

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When a company pays their partners some profits

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What is a bond?

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Debt instrument by which the company owes you money

Return is the fluctuation of price and the interest rate paid

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When investors pool in their money, it is called a what?

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Mutual fund

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44
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How do you choose a stock?

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5-10 year track record

45
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Mutual funds are good for what?

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Long term investments

46
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What is the problem w/ real estate?

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Least liquid consumer investment

Have lots of cash before investing

47
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What are annuities?

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Savings accounts w/ an annuities company

48
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What are fixed annuities?

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Low interest rates around 5% that are a bad investment

49
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What are commodities and futures?

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Horrible investments like gold and oil

50
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What are some terrible investments?

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Commodities and futures
Day trading
Viaticals

51
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What are aggressive growths?

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Small cap

Young companies that are growing

52
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What are growth and income?

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Large cap

Stable funds

53
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What are growth funds?

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Mid-cap funds

Are still growing

54
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Long term investments properly diversified include what?

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Growth, aggressive growth, growth and income, and international

55
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What is the best type of person to go to about financial problems?

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Someone who will teach you

56
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What is tax-favored?

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The investment is in a qualified plan or has special treatment

57
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Why is a qualified plan?

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Individual retirement arrangment (IRA)
Simplified employee pension plan (SEPP)
401K, 403b, 457

58
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For a Roth IRA, who is elegible?

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Anyone with an earned income
Singles- 100% contribution w/ income less then 95,000. Not eligible over 110,000
Married filed jointly- 100% contribution w/ income less then 150,000. Not eligible over 160,000

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What is a Simplified Employee Pension Plan?

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A self- employed person may deduct up to 15% of thief net profit on the business.

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What is the maximum deductible amount of a SEPP

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45,000, all employees who’ve been with the firm for three years must recurve the same percentage into a retirement plan

61
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What are 401ks available at?

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Most companies

62
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Whaler is a 403b available at?

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Non-profit organizations like schools and churches

63
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Where are 457 available at?

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Government jobs

64
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What is Defted compensation

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Deferring or putting off compensation

65
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What kind of plans should you not fund?

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GIC guaranteed investment contract

It bonds

66
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What is an educational savings account?

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Like a Roth IRA for education, if saved after tax, will grow tax-free

67
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What is a UTMA/UGMA

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Uniform gift to minors account

Account is listed in the child’s name and a custodian is named

68
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What is a 529 plan?

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Any plan that is for education

69
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How many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck?

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70%

70
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What is paradigm?

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Change in view

71
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What happened in the early 1900s?

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Sears started their follies

and jc penny stores did not except credit,

72
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What happened in 1950

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First credit card, the diners club

73
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What happened in 1958

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Bank of America started, which was the precursor to Visa

American Express was born

74
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What happened in 1970?

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Only 15% of Americans owned credit cards

75
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What happened in 1976?

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“Bank americard” became “visa”

76
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What happened in 1986?

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“Discover” was born

77
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What happened in today’s world?

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Credit is a way of life

78
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By consigning a loan what happens?

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The bank, if the person does not pay, makes you pay

79
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Myth: Cash advances, rent to own, title pawning, and tote the notes lots are needed to severed to get lower income people ahead.

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Truth: horrible ripoffs that only benefit the owners

80
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What amount of money do certain people spend in the lottery?

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$173- no high school diploma

$49- collage graduates

81
Q

What is the average car payment now?

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464 a month for 64 months

82
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What is the most expensive way to finance your vehicle?

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Leasing the car

83
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What is an unsecured loan?

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Nothing secures the loan
Based on the ability to to repay the loan
Personal loans, student loans

84
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What is a secured loan?

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Usually needed when borrowing a large amount of money
A collateral is needed
Lower interest rates longer repayment terms

85
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Never take how long long of a fixed rate mortgage?

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No more then 15 years

86
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What’s an adjustable rate mortgage?

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A horrible mortgage whoms payment fluctuates with the worth of the home.

87
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When you spend with cash, how much less do you spend?

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12-18% less

88
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Myth; the home equity loan is good for consolidation and a substitute for the er fund

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Truth: you don’t go into debt for emergencies

89
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What are the 5 steps out of debt?

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  1. Quit borrowing money
  2. Save some money
  3. Sale something
  4. Part time job or overtime
  5. Debt snowball
90
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How does the debt snowball work?

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By rolling over debt payments so that over time you start paying more

91
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How is money active?

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It moves around and needs tracking

92
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What is a cash flow plan?

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Shows where money goes too

93
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What are overdrafts a sign of?

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Crisis living, sloppy, lazy money habits

94
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Why do cash flow plans/ budgets not work?

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Bc people leave things out
Over complicate plan
Don’t do it
Don’t live on it

95
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What is liability?

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You’re responsible for it

96
Q

What is the state minimum for auto insurance?

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30/60/25

97
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What does 30/60/25 mean?

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30- 30,000 1 bodily injured
60- 60,000 2 bodily injured peeps
25- 25,000 property damage

98
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What is a Coverdale?

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K/PhDs

Any educational needs

99
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What is NEFE

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National Endowment Financial Education

When you give money to an organization and they get the interest

100
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What is collateral?

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Asset of value that lenders can take

101
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What is Capitol

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Items if value that lenders want to know you have incase you can’t pay the loan

102
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What is capacity

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Amount you can borrow

103
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What is compensative coverage collision?

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Coverage for your car

104
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What is a premium?

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Money sent to insurance company. Higher deductible, lower premium

105
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What is PIP

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Personal injury protector

Reimburses medical expenses for yourself

106
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What happens if someone does not have insurance, underinsured, or is a hit and run?

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Then your 30/60/25 will go to you

107
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What is covered in Auto insurance?

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  1. Liability
  2. Comprehensive coverage collision
  3. Personal injury protector
  4. Towing and rental
    5 uninsured/underinsured
108
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What is covered in Home insurance?

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  1. Dwelling
  2. Personal property
  3. Medical
  4. Liability
109
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Why is personal articles policy?

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Anything insured that has to be appraised

110
Q

the true cost of something in terms of what you give up

A

opportunity cost

111
Q

court action that allows a lender to take wages directly from a pay

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check garnishment

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