This still boggles my mind. My Old Spice pomade jumped from $4-$5 for 2.6 oz container to $10 for a 2.4 oz container and I'm supposed to go about my day thinking this is how things should be right now? Granted it's somewhat of a luxury item and there are various other products that are similar or even worse that are more of a necessity, but it proves my point in how much products have jumped in price for no fucking reason other than greed.
It's because of avocado toast according to boomers (definitely not because of wealth inequality and the top 200 net worth individuals owning 30% of all American wealth and squeezing the living shit out of the middle class)
Doesn’t help that even great credit scores give cards that have a rate of 17%+. That’s insane. It shouldn’t be a surprise since the CC companies want us in debt so they make money. I mean, duh.
One of my credit cards offered me a 0% deal for a year. I used it to have work done on my house. Why WOULDN'T I carry that balance for a year and pay it off?
Now if you found a way to turn around and earn interest or earn extra with that money...now you're cooking with gas. Just make sure the earnings are worth the relative risk, and that you hedge against that risk.