The Financial Realities of Taking on a 100% Loan-to-Value Mortgage

@KavonH, let’s talk plainly: You need around 100% loan-to-value, so around 5% pa interest is due, around €14,000 in interest per year. In addition, 2% repayment for another €5,600. Now you are just married, but after you buy and move in, the children will be there in a few years and the follow-up financing will … Read more

Deciding Between Loan Repayment or Investment: Greed vs Peace of Mind

Deciding Between Loan Repayment or Investment: Greed vs Peace of Mind

Would you rather pay off or speculate? Bild: Picture Alliance Anyone who prefers to invest in stocks instead of paying off a loan is considered greedy. This archaic greed for reward can be satisfied with money, coke or sex. However, as we get older, the longing for peace and quiet often grows. Whe defeats whom, … Read more

The Importance of Choosing Life in Jewish Tradition: A Reflection on Dt 30:19 in the Context of the Last War

The Importance of Choosing Life in Jewish Tradition: A Reflection on Dt 30:19 in the Context of the Last War

The cross : How does the verse “You will choose life” (Dt 30:19) does it have a particular importance in Jewish tradition, and how can we read it in the light of the last war? Yann Boissière: Taken from Deuteronomy – the fifth book of the Torah – this verse is central in Judaism. To … Read more

“Gifted Peking University Student’s 50,000-word Family Letter: Seeking Redemption for Murdering Mother and Deceiving Relatives”

“Gifted Peking University Student’s 50,000-word Family Letter: Seeking Redemption for Murdering Mother and Deceiving Relatives”

The case of murdering the mother and hiding the corpse. The gifted student of Peking University wrote a 50,000-word family letter seeking to survive. Experts call it an exquisite egoist. (Schematic / Shutterstock Dazhi image) The Paper reported on the 11th that Wu Xieyu, a gifted student at Peking University who died in the first … Read more

Tears are the smallest ocean that humans can make|Lattice vocus

Tears are the smallest ocean that humans can make|Lattice vocus

There was once Donald Gould, a homeless man in Florida, who couldn’t eat three meals a day. On rainy days, you can only temporarily shelter from the rain under the eaves of the store. He looks very downcast, and he hasn’t shaved his beard for a long time. No one cares whether such a person … Read more