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You’re mistaking rate vs outstanding debt.

If I have a $1M mortgage at 6%, and a $1000 credit card debt at 25%, which is harder for me to pay off, assuming I make $100K per year?




Click on the link. I assure you I am not.


I see your point. I suppose my only response is that a significant amount of our debt is being rolled over annually. It’s currently being rolled over from extremely low interest rates to non-trivially high interest rates. We should expect the spike on the left side of the graph to keep increasing unless rates decline significantly, soon.




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