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| Big Stack |
What could possibly go wrong? Actually I'd kinda like to find out  https://www.yahoo.com/gma/20-o...news-topstories.html | ||
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Membership has its privileges |
Party like a Rock Star!!! Niech Zyje P-220 Steve | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
As much as I would be hard pressed to turn down that amount of money at 20, I think (knowing what I know now) that I would be a thousand times better off winning that money at 35 instead. I think most of you know what I'm talking about. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Ammoholic |
He might surprise you guys, not all 20 year olds act like 20 year olds. Congratulations to the very lucky young man. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Bunch of savages in this town  |
You know what I'd do with $451 million? Two chicks at the same time. ----------------- I apologize now... | |||
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| Big Stack |
Usually I approve of taking the money in a lump sum. But maybe this kid should have taken the annuity payout. | |||
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Honky Lips |
I hope he spends it well, but I'm doubtful. | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
At 20, absolutely. Taking the annuity I would think makes much more financial sense. Maybe. I don't know. What's the annuity by the way? ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Member |
A bird in hand, and all that. Definitely take the lump. | |||
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Go Vols! |
There are still ways to lose future payments. Some companies will pay you a percentage of a future payment now and they take the full payment when it gets paid out. | |||
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| Member |
I sure do know what you're talking about. No way at twenty I could responsibly handle that amount of money. I really hope this kid gets some good financial advice. If he does he, and his children, and his grand children, and his great grand children can live like princes (not kings). | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Not only that, but in regards to the direction and experiences in my life due to my time at the Academy and with my career...those are things that have shaped me into who I am today. I believe that I'd be a much different person now if I had come into hundreds of millions of dollars at age 20. And not for the better. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
Hookers and blow? What's the problem? | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Did you read the story? He had coffee with his dad the next morning, his lawyer set up an entity to handle everything. He had a feeling he would win. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Member |
Bet he gets more attention from women now for some reason. "Hold my beer.....Watch this". | |||
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| Member |
Now he just has to learn which ones are scamming him. Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me One says she's a friend of mine. -c1steve | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
The annuity starts at $7.2 million, increasing by 5% each year for 29 years for a total of $451 million. Based on your post, I ran the analysis by modeling investing in $281.2 million against the annuity cash flow and the rate of return is only 3%. From a pure financial sense over a 29 year period, he can do better by investing the $281.2 million elsewhere like the stock market, recreational marijuana, or hookers and blow. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Here's the jackpot analysis for the mega millions this past weekend. It shows what the annuity payments would have been. Mega Millions Annuity Jackpot Analysis for Florida (Jan. 5, 2018 Drawing) | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Got it. Lump sum definitely makes better sense. And screw everything I said earlier about experiences and my career and all that nonsense. Hookers and blow for the win! ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Lost |
He can always annuitize all or part of the lump sum any time he wants through a private company. In fact he would probably get a better internal rate of return commercially. If it were me, I'd do both. Take the lump sum, but take a part of it and buy a single premium immediate annuity. So even if I turn into an unrestrained spendthrift (I doubt it, but you never know) and lose the liquid part, I still get a guaranteed monthly check that I can only spend as fast as they send it. (Yes, there are companies that will take your annuity and give you a single structured settlement in exchange for future installments, but let's assume I'm smart enough to stay away from those.) | |||
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