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Re:Reddit has become a guide to personal finance by potatoz2 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:59PM (#22487405)
It's unusual to have $62k or more in a savings account.

Either it's some sort of 6-month emergency fund and CDs typically make more sense (ladder or not) or it's money you want to grow, in which case investing in index funds is the better approach.

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Re:Reddit has become a guide to personal finance by magduf on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:20PM (#22488268)
>It's unusual to have $62k or more in a savings account.

You're not paying attention. The OP said it would take decades to make $1k or $2k; I pointed out it doesn't take that much money to make that in only 1 year. It's not that unusual to have $30k in savings, so that's roughly $1k in interest in 2 years, which is an order of magnitude lower than what the OP was claiming.

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