Published: by Monica Crapanzano |
permalink When it comes to mathematics, certain facts are universally agreed-upon. For example, regardless of your culture or educational system, you must agree that one plus one equals two unless you mistakenly fall for an invalid proof. When dealing with money, why are people inclined to believe that one plus one does not equal two? If you have a certain amount of money available to pay off a portion of your credit card debt each month, even if that certain amount changes, there is a mathematically correct way of paying off that debt. You can call this approach the Debt Avalanche. It is similar to Dave Ramsey's popular "debt snowball" method, with one small but important detail: With the Debt Avalanche you will pay off your debt faster and pay less total interest to banks and lenders. The simple calculation for the Debt Avalanche requires only the interest rates for each debt account. This assumes that all debt accounts have the same tax liability, but if that's [...]
