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Seattle Bubble Forum Archive • View topic - A depressing personal anecdote

A depressing personal anecdote

Myth propagated by bitter ignorant renters, or statistical reality ignored by real estate professionals?

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A depressing personal anecdote

Postby The Tim » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:04 pm

On my recent trip through SoCal to visit my wife's family we were spending some time with my 20-year-old brother in law, and the topic of debt came up. In a completely serious tone he stated matter-of-factly that "debt gives you power."

Here's what makes it even more sad. He's currently attending university to get a degree... in business. Oh yeah, and the school he's going to is in Riverside, .

I get that 20-year-old kids are naïve, but "debt gives you power"? Really? How blind can you be?
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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby redmondjp » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:24 pm

This goes along the same lines as one of my favorite 'mericanisms of late:

Debt = wealth.

Now we're finding out that maybe somebody left a slash out of that equation!

And as happened in the Great Depression I (remember, we couldn't start calling the Great War WWI until WWII happened), those NOT in debt will be soon be able to buy assets (land, houses, businesses, cars, etc) for pennies on the dollar. And what's fundamentally different this time (GDII) is the level of foreign investment that is available. There are some oil-rich middle-eastern countries that literally can't find enough places to park their cash, and we've already started selling out our public infrastructure (ports, toll roads, etc) to foreign entities and that will continue to happen.

In the global economy, we're going to re-learn the Golden Rule:

Those that control the gold (monetary system, not nec. actual gold), make the rules . . .
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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby Markor » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:45 pm

See the movie The Lookout. Great line in there: "Whoever has the money has the power".
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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby rose-colored-coolaid » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:32 pm

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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby Ubersalad » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:54 pm

Has to be an incomplete sentence.

Debt gives you power to feel trapped!
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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby Markor » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:07 pm

Debt sure gave these big banks a lot of power. It let them hold the whole world hostage until Americans borrow to pay a $700 billion+ ransom.
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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby perfectfire » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:51 pm

Remember, if you rent it's not a home, it's a hovel.
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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby rose-colored-coolaid » Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:31 am

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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby Ouch! » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:24 pm

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Re: A depressing personal anecdote

Postby dls » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:01 pm

A year late or so, but I have to chime in.

I'm an engineer, and I also have an MBA (I'm still respectable because, after a short stint in corporate finance I went back to engineering and stayed [got a nice fleece vest out of it though]). When I was in biz weasel skool [late '90s-2000] using debt as a 'leverage' was all the rage. Being experienced in life [in my late '30s] and a child of Depression era parents I considered debt to be a necessary evil at best. Needless to say the good folks at biz skool thought my opinion was 'off'.

In a somewhat morbid way, the recent Wall Street bailout mess has me feeling somewhat 'vindicated'. I'm just waiting for the other shoes to fall....and looking for some good used firerams.
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