It Is Hard To Make Money With Low Interest Rates
If you are someone who relies on interest income, 2009 has been a rough year for you. A quick search for the highest CD and money market interest rates shows that they are the lowest they have been in years. This means that earning money passively with the money you already have has not worked well.
It is difficult for anyone to make much money from interest in this economic environment. The phrase "time is money" doesn't apply much anymore because no matter how long you are willing to loan your money to a bank, you will not get much in return. People who are used to having interest income from their investments have not been doing well for quite some time.
Looking for the highest interest rates in your town or city will probably not lead you to the best in the country. For that you have to use the Internet to find banks and institutions that are having promotions and thereby giving the highest rates. Fortunately, you can send money to many banks you will find online and that gives you the ability to find the better rates than you will find locally.
With the stock market having performed so poorly for the last couple of years, people have wanted their money in cash and very safe investments. Traditionally these 'safe' investments pay lower interest than more risky ones but never as low as they have been this year. It is hard to make anything worthwhile with rates this low.
Many people don't care about interest rates because they have no money to invest. Those folks don't care about the stock market or interest rates and don't seem to understand how everything is intertwined and affects us all. Those people have never bothered to save (or have been unable to) and are depending on the government to pay them social security upon retirement. With things going so badly with all business and the government being in more debt than ever before, let's hope they are able to collect that government social security when they come of age and need it.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010
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