This may seem to be too good to be true at first, and you may not easy accept what we share with you here; because we’re all conditioned accept the status quo.  The banking industry truly doesn’t want you to know our method. They would rather that you pay your mortgage payments over a long period of time, so they can maximize their profit, at your expense.

In this article, we’re going to spill the beans, and reveal some of the secrets the banking industry has been keeping from us far too long!

If you want to pay off your mortgage as fast as possible, it benefits you a great deal to find a way to put extra funds toward the outstanding balance as soon as possible.  But to do this doesn’t mean you have to spend more than you already spend per month.  It’s actually the method of payment that will save you the most money!  And we’re talking about huge savings!

Where do the extra payments come from?
Even a little extra money paid in the beginning pays huge dividends in the long run; because the huge interest charges early in the loan really cause whirlpools in the bottom line!  Most home buyers aren’t aware that they can easily lower their interest cost, and apply a lot more to the principal instead.  Far too many home buyers fail to make the simple corrections!  Although once we see the significance of paying down the principal, and follow our proven method, they get on track to pay off their mortgage very early; often in as little as 8 1/2 years.

Front-Loaded Interest: A Big Reason You Haven’t Been Able To Pay Off Your Mortgage Quickly

If you take a look at your mortgage amortization table, you’ll discover something very interesting. I’ll just lay out the facts for you here, using the example of a $150,000 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6% APR.

In the first year of your mortgage, you pay $10,791.96 (12 monthly payments at $899.33), and a whopping $8,949.89 of that goes to the bank for interest, NOT the principal.

That’s a whopping 82.93% of your payments that went to interest… flushed down the toilet, and into the banks’ pockets. That’s your hard-earned money going bye-bye, since it doesn’t pay off your loan at all!

Of your first year payments, only 17.07 % applies toward the real problem – the principal, that stands in your way of paying off your loan.

The sad thing is, even though you paid $10,791.98 on your $150,000 mortgage, the principal still stands at $148,157.98.

That means that the equity you’d have in your home would be $1,842.02. You “invest” $10,791.98, and get back only $1,842.02. (That’s an effective interest rate of over 500% in that first year.)  To come up with that number, we must understand that we paid close to $11,000.00 to end up with a measly $1,842.00 in equity.  Yikes!  The effective interest charged by the bank reducing the bottom line to such a dismal level is astoundingly high!

This is a prime example of how your bank front-loads the interest during the first years of your mortgage. And to make it worse, most people sell, or refinance, within the first 5 years of their mortgage, making the front-loading even worse for the borrower.  It helps them squeeze every dollar out of you when you start all over again.

In fact, the only way that a 6% interest is ever 6%, is if the borrower actually stays with the mortgage for the full term (30 years, in our example). Only a very small fraction of homeowners actually do this. If you sell or refinance at any time before the maturity of your mortgage, the effective interest rate you end up paying is usually much more than 6%.

So, How Do We Pay Off Our Mortgage Quicker?

It’s simple. Turn the tables on the bank!  We’ve shown you how they front-load the interest. Now you know what thousands of people who are already paying off their mortgages early have learned: find a way to pay a larger portion of each payment toward the actual debt.  Oh yes, it’s easy to do!

But there’s another problem.

The banks have ways of keeping this information from you. They’re just not going to share any secrets, because it would hurt their bottom line.  So they they’ve laid out a minefield to make it very difficult for the home-buyer to reverse damaging trend of front-loading.

But take our word for it: there is a way, – a method – to legally, and easily, maneuver through this minefield, and pay off your mortgage in a fraction of the time. Thousands of home buyers have learned what you can learn with us, and are already doing something about it!.

Mortgage acceleration–true mortgage acceleration–is the key to success!

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What exactly do the charts have to show?  When you open a financial magazine or scan a stockholder’s report, you will always encounter a stock chart.  It can be confusing and overwhelming when you don’t know exactly what the lines show and what highlights to focus on.  Unfortunately, stock charts can’t help but be technical in their approach, but there is an easier way of analyzing them from the viewpoint of a beginner.  Let’s take it point by point.

All about trends
Stock charts are all about short-term and long-term trends.  On a moving average of 20 days or 50 days, for instance, you will see at which stage a stock is in, in which direction it is going, and whether the trend is starting or ending.  Because the going can be tough especially in a financial crisis, you can’t expect a chart to always be smooth and upward in trend.  It can get sloppy and erratic at times, and that’s when reading charts becomes handy.

Levels of support and resistance
Over a short period of time, a stock develops a level of support as well as a level of resistance.  The former is a price at which a stock doesn’t drop down or fall below, while the latter is a price which a stock can’t penetrate through or break beyond.  For such a stalemate, it takes a very significant financial event to make either downfalls or breakthroughs in prices.  That’s what you have to watch for.

Price history, support and resistance
It would be safe to go back 6 -12 months in the past and retrace how stock prices have held up consistently.  For example, if a stock fell a number of times to $30 USD in the last six months and kept rising from that same price repeatedly, then you have a reasonable history of $30 USD as its price support.  On the other hand, price resistance is the price at which a stock cannot seem to rise past as shown by a given number of tries.  If a stock always fell back when it reached $40 USD, then that is its price resistance.

So how do these basis technical terms apply in real life?  The bottomline is they tell you HOW to buy stocks and WHEN to buy and sell stocks.  For example, you can place an order to buy stocks when they cross a level of resistance because a newer, higher one will be set and you are bound to profit from it.  When you anticipate that a stock is just holding precariously above a level of support and could fall below it anytime, then that would be the perfect time to sell before you incur losses.

So how do you get better at reading charts when you’re such a beginner?  Some people fast-track their stock market education through quick online courses in stock trading. Some strive to learn by listening attentively to the best and brightest among their peers. Still some continue to grow by reading the news and correlating the information they gather with what the charts, indeed, have to show.

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There is nothing wrong with using loans to reach your financial goals. In fact, a loan can be an excellent tool to add to your financial portfolio because it can help you leverage your current position. But which loan is the right loan for you?

There are basically two kinds of loans. Unsecured loans and secured loans are the two kinds of loans that you have available.

Secured loans are loans in which you offer the lending institution some kind of guarantee that they will receive payment for the loan. The example of a guarantee might be some assets that you have, like your house or your car or stock certificates. Although you don’t have to turn them over to the lending institution in order to get the loan, having them in your possession assures the lending institution that if you are to default on your payment they would have something to seize and sell to recover their losses.

On the other hand, an unsecured loan is a loan in which you simply use your credit rating to help you borrow money from the lending institution. People who do not have assets or do not want to provide assets as a guarantee may prefer this type of loan as an alternative.

So which one is the better loan? While every case is different, you should consider what is important to you. For many people getting a good deal on a loan means getting a low interest rate, a high amount of available loan, and a long repayment period.

If that describes you then you probably want to go with a secured loan. Why? It’s simple. Lending institutions determine the amounts they’re willing to lend, the interest rates they will be lending at, and how soon they want the money back based on the amount of risk they are taking to give up the money. While a person with a good credit rating may not be a big risk, the risk is still greater than with the person who has some assets to back up the loan if they are unable to pay with money.

So it may be the right one for you. A secured loan is the right option for many people because it provides a greater amount of available lending cash, a lower interest rate, and a longer term to repay.

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However, people do make money on the internet and lots of it. The question is how to get on the bandwagon with the rest of the so-called internet gurus out there. Passive Income Generation is one method that I use and recommend to many people I know or get aquainted with. With PIG, you can always concentrate your efforts on your day job until your internet venture grows sufficiently and this perhaps is the most practicable approach. PIG is efficient and least time consuming for a budding entrepreneur on the internet. It is termed so because it will earn you money whether you are asleep or abroad, on the earth or on mars. Here is a hands-on example of how to start a PIG project. Starting by owning a simple website. Even a free one that a provider like Geocities or Lycos lets you build for free. If you are to make money, then 2 essentials need to be met -

The product/information that you sell on your website
The amount of traffic you get to your website

Each one is complimentary to the other and you cannot raise money with out anyone coming to your website, neither can you if you just have people visiting your site and they have nothing to do there. The bottom line is that you have to concentrate on both aspects.

I would start from your strengths. Say, for instance you work in a frozen-dinner factory – so you know everything about how a frozen dinner starts its life to it reaching the consumer’s plate. Make a simple webpage that explains how frozen dinners are made, how they are packaged, what standards are met in preparation stages, etc. You should have about 9-10 pages of content with pictures and links to external sites that can give technical or related information. Make it look like a place you would come to if you wanted to know about frozen dinners.

Now, there isnt much to sell on your website. You have information that people will read and look at but, over all you’ve got nothing they’re going to pay you money for. You’re not likely to sell frozen dinners on your website, its probably easier and less cumbersome to buy it from the local store and that way they can also ensure quality. So how can you make money? You can put advertisements that pay you for everytime they are clicked. These are called Pay-Per-Click advertisements – some examples are Google Adsense, Yahoo Ads, MSN adcenter, Chitika, Clicksor, etc.Whenever you get a visitor they are likely to read your content and click on an advertisement that you have displayed in turn earning you money.

The best way you can get people to your site is to use the following strategies. Start a blog that belongs to a major search engine like Google or Yahoo, example blogspot and 360 respectively. Post a blurb every day relating to your theme and that has a link back to your web site. Exchange your website’s link with other websites that are in a similar theme. You can write articles about your website and submit them to article directories. All of these will help you be picked up by a search engine soon. These practices will also help you make money over a long range of time.

Using the modest of math calculation, you would earn about $5.00-$6.00 every day, a month from this website alone, without you having to do anything after you get a regular stream of visitors every day. $5.00 isn’t much a day and adds up to $1800 a year. This needs to be repeated atleast 10 times. $5.00 a day, you can easily purchase domain names, hosting, and even some content writers to put up your websites. Choose interesting themes, choosing a theme like cars or planes or something too broad will not draw in much traffic as you would be competing with ford and boeing.

The bottomline being Passive Income Generation needs to be done in large-scale. 1 or 2 sites will give you little money, but more importantly the much needed confidence. The real sticky part is picking the theme for which you can make a site that will bring you revenue. These are niche themes. Passive Income Generation is totally possible and with a little perseverance – you will succeed.

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1.  Participate in company retirement plans.  Every dollar you contribute will reduce your taxable income and thus your income taxes.  Similarly, enroll in your company’s flexible spending account.  You can set aside money for medical expenses and day care expenses.  This money is “use it or lose it” so make sure you estimate well!

2.  Make sure you pay in enough taxes to avoid penalties.  Uncle Sam charges interest and penalties if you don’t pay in at least 90% of your current year taxes or 100% of last year’s tax liability.

3.  Buy a house.  The mortgage interest and real estate taxes are deductible, and may allow you to itemize other deductions such as property taxes and charitable donations.

4.  Keep your house for at least two years.  One of the best tax breaks available today is the home sale exclusion, which allows you to exclude up to $250,000 ($500,000 for joint filers) of profit on the sale of your home from your income.  However, you must have owned and lived in your home for at least two years to qualify for the exclusion.

5.  Time your investment sales.  If your income is higher than expected, sell some of your losers to reduce taxable income.  If you will be selling a mutual fund, sell before the year-end distributions to avoid taxes on the upcoming dividend or capital gain.   Also, you should allocate tax efficient investments to your taxable accounts and non-efficient investments to your retirement accounts, to reduce the tax you pay on interest, dividends and capital gains.

6.  If you’re retired, plan your retirement plan distributions carefully.  If a retirement plan distribution will push you into a higher tax bracket, consider taking money out of taxable investments to keep you in the lower tax bracket.  Also, pay attention to the 59-� age limit.  Withdrawals taken before this age can result in penalties in addition to income taxes.

7.  Bunch your expenses.  Certain expenses must exceed a minimum before you can deduct them (medical expenses must exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income and miscellaneous expenses such as tax preparation fees must exceed 2% of your AGI).  In order to deduct these expenses, you may need to bunch these types of expenses into a single year to get above the minimum.  To achieve this, you might prepay medical and miscellaneous expenses on December 31 to get above the minimum amount.

The most important thing is to be aware of the tax deductions and credits that apply to you and to plan for taxable events.  And don’t be afraid to ask for help.  The benefits from consulting an experienced tax professional far outweigh the cost to hire that professional.

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1. Read and learn how to save money during an economic recession. Walk off to the nearby library or bookstore and have a book “Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century” by William Bonner. Another book by the author which is worth reading is “Conquer the Crash: Similarly, you can consult deflationary Depression” by Robert R. Prechter.
2. See if your existing job is in a critical sector to avoid layoff during the recession. Most jobs in health care, food production and supply, home based freelance jobs are safe bets.
3. You should make a list of your spending habits. Make an effort to change them to only necessitates.
4. Even if people are apprehensive to spend there is still money to be made if you have skills or services that people need. Discover some niche that is making money. Grow food to sell, learn the skills like house repairs, rent out space and use these skills to monetize.
5. Do not take further debt during an economic recession. If you learn to live on less money than as the economy picks up you’ll make more money more rapidly with the skills you learned during the recession.
6. Make your lunch on your own and take it to your workplace with you. This will not only save money during an economic recession but you will also have the exact food that you like to eat. It will healthier than what you would pay for by going out to eat.
7. Water your grass on your own and turn off your sprinklers. This will save quite a few bucks by doing your own watering.
8. You should buy the things like thermos and carry your own coffee with you to your business place. Spending money each day on coffee and other beverages does not seem right if you are trying save money during an economic recession.
9. Don’t buy excessive shoes and clothing.
10. Meet with others and buy and sell what you have for what you need. You can do this kind of business activities with your friends and neighbors. These are a few very valuable ways to save money during an economic recession. Strive hard to find out other means to cut corners. Always ponder before you spend the money. Also, hunt for different means to earn extra bucks, such as by freelance home based jobs.

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Author: L. Arbore

Lately cash leveraging programs or cash gifting programs has taken over the Net. So what is the definition of Cash gifting?, first of all there are no products involved, it’s not a business, not mlm, not direct sales and it’s not an _investment. basically The majority of all programs on the Net today are nothing more than  glorified cash gifting programs.

And the reason for that is, any time you join a  business that has a direct sales system in place you are paying your  sponsor and not the company, the sponsor is making 100% commission just by recruiting you, after that, you’ll be promoting the ” BUSINESS” too and making 100% commission yourself so what about the products you may ask.. well they are nothing more than a cover-up, usually they are worthless but these companies want you to believe that you just bought a bundle of cutting edge up to date products that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and that you’ll have resell rights to them,  but why are you going to try to sell something for a few bucks when first of all you’ll find many other programs offering these very products for free when you join them.

No one tries to sell the products but the business itself, that’s where the money is, who cares what the products are. You may ask, how does the Company make_money then? Being that most of them have the 1 up or 2 up system in place, the founders will make residual_income from all the members that started under them plus they charge a monthly fee for their replicated website and hosting, support..etc, from every member that joins the ” Business” and there’s nothing wrong with that at all except for the fact that what’s really taking place is Cash leveraging or gifting.

Now what is causing so many people to move towards Cash Gifting? Well people are sick and tired of all the hype and the promise of financial_freedom by pushing worthless products to others, tired of having to explain and convince people of something you don’t quite believe yourself something that doesn’t make much sense, it’s confusing, nevertheless you were deceived into it and now you have to do the same otherwise you’ve just lost a great deal of money and time.

Cash Gifting is not a business, it does not have any products, there’s no convincing or explaining to do, no cold calling, but it has something everyone in any part of the world craves for and that is “CASH”

Your Job is to promote heavily online and offline, yes it requires work. A terrible thing happens to those that don’t promote and advertise
and that is NOTHING, nothing will happen if no effort is put in to it.

Many will say that cash gifting is a scam, that it’s illegal, unethical and so on. Is it really?

Well, by definition, Cash Gifting (also referred to as “Cash Leveraging”) is the act of privately or publicly giving another person or entity a declared sum of cash (strictly as a gift) and giving it freely without coercion or consideration.
It doesn’t involve network marketing, multi-level marketing, or a business or commercial activity. There are no business transactions, investments and/or securities involved in this activity. There’s no business or company name or location and there are no directors, officers, shareholders or principals. Individuals simply support each other in a team concept and help change lives.
It’s called a cash gift because that’s exactly what it is… a gift of cash.

The principle of “Gifting” has been proven as an effective model for creating prosperity very quickly for many people who practice it. Although the concept of “Gifting“ has helped thousands of people prosper around the world, it’s also been blemished over the years through various “Scams” & “Get Rich Quick” _pyramid_schemes.

Over the years, there have been many opinions and thoughts as to the legitimacy and legality of Cash Gifting as a viable and honest means of generating cash flow.

In fact, I learned that both American and Canadian citizens have the Constitutional right to gift property,_cash and other assets.
In the United States we have the Preamble, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to protect a private citizen’s rights to earn, pay_taxes and give away property and cash as long as it’s done according to the laws and codes of this country. The U.S. gifting rules are found in the IRS Tax_Code, Title 26, Sections 2501-2504 and 2511.

the law states that one or more individuals can give a cash gift to another individual of up to $12,000 each per calendar year without any tax_liability to either the giver or receiver of the gift, because the tax on the gift has already been paid.

Now, even though gifts don’t have to be included in the gross income of the recipient, it’s probably a good idea to pay taxes on any and all cash gifts you receive from anyone not related to you.

I once heard that Cash Gifting programs account for approximately 60% of all money generated in the home-based opportunity industry. I don’t know how true this is, but this activity is extremely popular right now.

So giving a gift of cash to someone, be it a friend, family member or a stranger is legal according to IRS code. Again, there’s no specific nation-wide law that I’ve been able to find to say that cash gifting is not legal. Again I deal with facts not opinions.

Now, that being said, it’s important to note that not all Cash Gifting programs may be legal in their structure. Certainly there are some that may not be. Unfortunately, there are still some “old school” Cash Gifting programs out there (mostly offline) that weren’t structured properly in order to sustain their efforts for any considerable length of time, and some of them use an illegal pyramidal type of structure.

A properly and legally structured gifting program that uses a “1Up” structure is not a pyramid scheme since there is only 1 tier, or level. But let me define what a pyramid actually is before we go any further – A pyramid is usually associated with a company or a business. Gifting programs are not companies, they’re considered a private sharing activity.

Gifting programs require no sales quotas (there’s no product to sell), there are no positions to be sold, and they don’t have an ever-widening base to the structure, which just keeps going and going to infinity.

A pyramid never allows anyone coming in on the bottom to ever reach the top. With a 1UP Cash Gifting program, everyone gives the same gifts, works together in a team dynamic, and receives the same gift.

In a pyramid, only those at the top get the profit while those at the bottom usually never reach the top. In a pyramid, people can and have lost their money. A pyramid is also not to be confused with “Network Marketing or MLM”.

Although Network Marketing is a legal and viable business model and source of income, it doesn’t work for the majority of people that join one of these programs. Cash Gifting programs are neither a networking company/opportunity, nor a pyramid scheme.

I’ve come to realize that the majority of people don’t join a home-based opportunity to peddle lotions, pills, diet cookies, “magic juice”, downloadable e-books, over-priced conference tickets, vacation discount vouchers – or any other so-called “products.”.

If we really want to take an honest look at the industry, 95% of the people currently in a “home_business” are fooling themselves into THINKING they’re entrepreneurs.

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1.                  Babysit in your home.

2.                  Become a caregiver for neighbors’ pets while they are on vacation.

3.                  Sign up with local market research companies to participate in consumer surveys.

4.                  Sell used books on Amazon.com

5.                  Sell gently used clothes and other items on E-Bay.

6.                  Sign up to become a secret shopper.

7.                  Sign up to become an Avon Representative.  Your commission is anywhere from 20% to 50%.

8.                  Work as a lunch aide in the local elementary school.  This job is for only two hours a day.  It’s perfect for mothers of school-age children.

9.                  Rent out a spare room in your house.

10.              Rent your garage to someone who has an antique car or to someone who lives in an apartment and doesn’t have access to a garage.

11.              During Christmastime, work part-time at a retail store.  Many stores will hire you even if you can only work on Saturdays (the busiest shopping day).

12.              If you are a teacher or have expertise in a school subject, tutor students in your home.

13.              Seasonal jobs can be found at H&R Block Tax services.  With the proper training given by them, you can work each year from January through April.

14.              Clean houses while your kids are in school.

15.              Become a Weichert Realtor Referral Associate.  In this role, you refer people who are interested in buying a home to a licensed Weichert Realtor.  Your commission is anywhere from several hundred dollars for a modestly priced home to several thousand for a luxury home.

16.              Teach classes at your local adult community school on a topic in which you are a subject matter expert.  Examples are scrapbooking, Disneyworld, Investments, specific computer applications, E-Bay, etc.

17.              Use the website Craig’s List to find local jobs which are temporary or part time.  Jobs posted here usually need to be filled quickly.

18.              Contact your local Yellow Book office to sign up to deliver phone books in your area.  You are paid per book delivered and this is a temporary job.  However, you must use your own car.  You can deduct the mileage when you file your taxes.

19.              Sign up to become a substitute teacher in your town or surrounding towns.  There are usually certain courses that must be completed at a community college or a university.  Check with the school district.

20.              Create your own website with content which is interesting to you or on which you are an expert.  Use Site Build It! to build the site and make money from allowing Google ads to show on your site and by becoming an affiliate of  online merchants which sell goods and services which are are related to the topic of your website.

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This short guide will help you understand how you can use your credit card so it works to your advantage, not against you.

Advantages

A credit card can:

1.    Offer free use of funds, provided you always pay your balance in full, on time.
2.    Be more convenient to carry than cash.
3.    Help you establish a good credit history.
4.    Provide a convenient payment method for purchases made on the Internet and over the telephone.
5.    Give you incentives, such as reward points, that you can redeem.

Disadvantages

On the other hand, credit cards can:

1.    Cost much more than other forms of credit, such as a line of credit or a personal loan, if you don’t pay on time.
2.    Damage your credit rating if your payments are late;
3.    Allow you to build up more debt than you can handle;
4.    Have complicated terms and conditions;

What is a credit card?

A credit card is more then a simple piece of plastic, it is first and foremost a flexible payment tool accepted at 30 million locations worldwide, and if the card balance is paid off every month, then no interest is charged on purchases made so, essentially, short-term credit is granted without the consumer paying any interest.

Among its many features it provides:

1.    Access to unsecured credit (no collateral required against amounts charged)
2.    Interest-free payment from time of purchase to the end of the billing period
3.    Instant payment of purchases, allowing for instant receipt of goods and services
4.    24/7 access
5.    Fraud protection

However before you decide to use your credit card, carefully consider all of the factors and weigh them against your personal needs and values.

What about credit card control?

Handling money and credit cards wisely is a talent few of us are born with. But it is a skill that can easily be learned. The place to start is with budgeting.

What is a Budget?

It’s simply an organized way of managing your finances, basically, it gives you an overall picture of where your money is coming from, when it’s coming in and how it’s being spent. A budget should be flexible, changing according to your circumstances.

Why Budget?

Budgeting helps us achieve short-term goals like paying the monthly bills on time; it’s also for longer-term financial goals like buying a home, a car, paying for an education,
a wedding or a holiday. When you take control of your financial affairs, you’re more confident about the future.

A budget is key to financial control. It gives you a “Polaroid picture” of where you stand financially and where you’re heading.

Credit card control tips

Use a low or no-fee credit card and save on the annual fee that some companies charge.

Only charge to your credit cards what you can pay off in full when the bill comes.

You might not use your credit card as much if you start believing that you have to pay off your entire balance at the end of each month.

A good way to help to reduce what you pay on your credit card is to search for a card with a lower interest rate. Many financial institutions now offer at least one of these types of cards.

Remember that when you take a cash advance on your credit card, the interest starts accumulating immediately and not on the due date of your credit card bill.

Also keep in mind that if you make only the minimum monthly repayment you may never get out of debt.

Conclusion

The main advantage of having a credit card is convenience but if you’re not good at budgeting and managing your finances, the over-use of credit cards can leave you with a debt that’s very difficult to pay back.

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