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Re:Ask HN: What to avoid in life? by sillysaurusx on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:22PM (#22213924)
Are you advising people to take out a loan and dump it in the stock market?
Re:Ask HN: What to avoid in life? by arcticbull on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:24PM (#22213939)
I mean I’m not saying you should go get a high interest loan that would force you into bankruptcy and drop it into SPY and hope for the best, but sure, if you have access to cheap capital and a huge runway to recover.

For instance you can take out a mortgage and then instead of paying it off as fast as you can, investing your free cash flow. That’s the same thing, but when presented that way it seems far less offensive.

Re:Ask HN: What to avoid in life? by scarejunba on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:40PM (#22214045)
You can margin trade for pretty cheap.
Re:Ask HN: What to avoid in life? by arcticbull on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:47PM (#22214085)
2.55% at InteractiveBrokers