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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by andrewmcwatters on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @01:03PM (#18241066)
It doesn't work that way anymore, so I'm not sure what world you live in; there are banks that provide indefinite mortgages which leave you literally paying nothing but interest and never principal.
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Re:The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse by stevekemp on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @01:35PM (#18241401)
There are certainly mortgages which only require the payment of the interest, rather than the principal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest-only_loan

But even with interest-only mortgages you don't pay indefinitely - either a) you switch to paying down the principal after a specific number of years or b) the loan-balance becomes due.

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