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Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by brianpgordon on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:53AM (#18599861)
> But imagine the overhead of opening and keeping track of those. How many accountants will you need to have on staff full time? And lots of banks charge a monthly fee if you aren't making transactions every month.

Many retail brokerages will sell you CDs commission-free and keep track of everything for you. They get a commission from the bank for selling them to you. Schwab has a CD search tool with results that keep going page after page after page. I'm sure if you had a billion dollars they'd be happy to have a broker make the purchases for you.

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Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by ww520 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @12:48PM (#18601744)
CD is as risky as the issuing bank. If the bank bankrupted, the CD money is gone, down to the FDIC insured amount.
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Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by brianpgordon on Saturday December 08, 2018 @04:52AM (#18634627)
What? Obviously I'm not saying that you'd buy more than $250k of CDs at a single bank. Where are you coming up with this?
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Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted by jjeaff on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @01:40AM (#18653603)
Then you are back to the original problem of the overhead of managing 4,000 different CDs. I think you'll negate any gains and maybe likely lose money.
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