Just an example number, if you can beat interest, it makes sense to finance

You probably could have gotten one new for not much more than $30K, with 50K fewer miles on it. I rarely find nearly new used cars to be much of a bargain. Go new, or go fully depreciated and well used.

Reality is I am making better than 8% annually on my investments, while paying 1.75% for my car loan. Why would I pay cash for a car again? And I certainly could. If I was willing to buy a more boring car than a GTI, there are plenty of 0% financing options out there.

You don’t need to earn 10%. If you have good credit you shouldn’t be paying more than about 2% for a car loan right now. That is actually less than the rate of inflation, so effectively free money. Time value of money alone means you are better off paying for a car over time at that point, as a dollar today is worth…

This is a reminder that a car may be a loss term if viewed narrowly — but in the broader context of most of our economic lives it is also an overhead cost of making money (i.e., getting to and from a job) — in short, a tool.

Depends if you can make more than you lose to interest rate or not. If you can return 10% on investments, and are paying 5% apr, might as well finance.

Kristen’s is an appropriate take at a car show. Car show people are a different breed... They spend a LOT of time cleaning and fretting over their paint. Like... a lot.

Yes, it’s a bad take unless .... your car has been scratched by someone’s ring because she decided to run her hand down the side of your car. Unless your car has been scratched by someone’s backpack sliding off their shoulder and banging along your car while he was looking at your wheels. Unless someone decided to…

“Failed stint in England” is an insane way to describe Dempsey’s PL career.

I generally avoid touching other people’s shit... More importantly, I really avoid touching other people’s shit when that shit is worth more than I can possibly pay for it...In my life time. It’s also called respect.

It’s an opinion about social morés: the social moré in question is whether or not it’s okay to touch an expensive piece of someone else’s property. The social norm in this case is no, absolutely not, and he’s wrong about this.

I’d rather not have people running their digits down the flanks of my grubby Miata. I’d rather not have people running their digits down the flanks of the family Prizm. It doesn’t matter what it is or how much it’s worth: never touch unless you have permission.

Exactly this, in any interaction with other humans or their property. This is just basic respectful behavior. 

“DROPS ENABLED! NO SCAM..”
Yeah.... anybody that opens with telling me it is not a scam is definitely running a scam.

I’ve found that Popeyes had a much better crunch to it without the layer of grease lurking below the surface of a KFC piece.

Thanks for the thoughtful response to my over-the-top initial comment.

Yes, hanging up 90 seconds into an interview is the equivalent of flipping the board and sulking out the door.

It’s fine to avoid questions and not want to answer them. In fact, his own head coach does an interview with the very same station every week (usually Monday afternoons). He famously dodges questions constantly, yet he’s never had to take his ball and go home like a pissy little crybaby.  It is possible!

At that point it was too late. If Guererro was off limits, that should have been established BEFORE the interview started. There’s almost always some kind of negotiation between bookers and guests before a guest appears on a show when the conversation parameters are laid out. And, it’s not up to the booker to make…

“I believe Brady is the one that decides what is “in-bounds” or not.”