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Is your good-for-nothing cash doing anything with its life? Please donโ€™t tell me itโ€™s sitting around eating all your food and drinking all your wine. Thatโ€™s no way to go through life. Maybe itโ€™s time your cash goes on a liver cleanse. But, if thatโ€™s not in the cards, thereโ€™s an easier way to whip it into shapeโ€”no boot camp required.

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Your Survival Guy knows what youโ€™re dealing with. Your bank is getting fat by lending out your cash for a song and paying you peanuts. Banks are always slow to pay up. But donโ€™t despair. Higher interest rates on your cash are there for the pickinโ€™ if youโ€™re a savvy investor.

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Yes, CDs are paying. But theyโ€™re not liquid like cash. Iโ€™m talking about keeping your cash liquid and earning a decent yield. Iโ€™m talking about getting that cash into a money market (I prefer Fidelity and Vanguard). Get that cash working. Itโ€™s been doing nothing for far too long. Beat inertia. Letโ€™s go.

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Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.ย