Raising Your Own Rates Even if the Fed Won’t

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The Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that it will be “patient” before raising interest rates again, but you should put your money in motion.

In a few minutes and with a few clicks of a mouse, you can crank up the yield on your cash by two percentage points, often adding hundreds—even thousands—of dollars to your investment income annually. The only hard part is overcoming your own inertia.

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This article was originally published on The Wall Street Journal.


Further reading

Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor