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Who inherits parent’s debt?

We would have been seeing in newspapers and hearing about stories from our friends, relatives, and others on how people are stressed out when insistent creditors come knocking on their doors, when their parents or their dear ones have passed away, and they have left out some outstanding loans. Unfortunately, it is typical for descendants to …

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Why do we fall into the vicious circle of leveraged spending?

This is one of my favourite write-ups on personal finance and my increases my curiosity to understand the current generation’s thoughts on costly leveraged purchases (sometimes myself as well!). First of all, let us try to understand what is a ‘Leveraged spending’. For retail consumers such as ourselves, ‘leveraged spending’ means using debt or borrowed …