LOW INTEREST: SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING RIGHT?
Interest rates are low enough now that they are lulling me to sleep. As my CD’s mature from last year, I look online to see what I can get now in interest for the money. Last year I was getting somewhere between 1% and 2% and right now I can’t get anything near that. After [...]
SHOULD I USE A MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT OR A CD?
If you have money you want to put away safely, how do you go about choosing whether you should put it in a savings account, a bank CD, or a money market account? Right now at this point in time in 2009, this decision is complicated by the fact that interest rates are low and people [...]