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The Federal Reserve Makes a 50 Basis Points Emergency Fed Funds Cut
The Federal Reserve has made a 50 basis point emergency cut in response to the spread of Coronavirus, moving the Fed Fund rate to a target of 1.00 to 1.25%. The market is pricing in the likelihood of further cuts on that March and April... Read →
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Our Advice is to Move Money From Savings Accounts to No Penalty CDs Right Now
The stock market is crashing. Anyone in it is losing a fortune this week. The temptation may be to try and follow Jon Najarian’s crazy option trades and be a hero, but as a veteran of 2000 and 2008, I can guarantee you that is... Read →
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Falling Savings Rates And Higher Taxes on Interest - Some Relief in An Alternative Currency?
Savings rates are falling and so too are CD rates. A lot of people are reaching out to BestCashCow to complain about falling interest rates, but unfortunately we just list these rates (some folks don’t understand that we don’t... Read →
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5 Reasons You Should Consider an American AAdvantage® Account with Bask Bank
Editor's Note: We have learned that the sign-on bonus, the feedback bonus and the balance bonus, all of which are described below, will continue to be extended to users who register for new accounts through June 30, 2020. These bonuses... Read →
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Are Some Online Banks So Deceptive that They Should Not Be Listed on BestCashCow?
First, the good news. In its nearly 15 years, BestCashCow has very seldom had to deal with this issue. As the reviews across the site indicate, most people have outstanding experiences with the major online banks. For the most part, across... Read →
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Chasing Savings Rates in a Falling Rate Environment is A Losing Strategy
I often speak to bank executives who are pursuing capital with the goal of bringing in large deposit volumes and who are setting their rate strategies. These folks will tell me that they are trying to avoid “fast cash”. In... Read →
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February 2020 Update – Five Ways to Improve Your Online Savings Rate in 2020
January 2020 ended with more than enough headlines to scare anyone into cash. Between Coronavirus spreading in China and the possibility that it may be a generation before the U.S. has a president not named Trump, there is a lot to be... Read →
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Putin, North Korea, David Faber, Jim Stewart and Your Savings and Brokerage Accounts
There are very few things or people that get my attention on CNBC. I usually find myself switching over to Bloomberg when Joe Kernen or Jim Cramer start rambling. I guess neither were around on Christmas Eve morning because I ended up... Read →
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Financial Advice from a 50-Year Old Who Last Saw a Market Like This in 1999
As I turn 50, I feel it is appropriate to look back and give some advice to a 30-year old me who was encountering a crazy bullish stock market like the current one in 1999. Twenty years ago, I had just turned 30. I was a newly-minted... Read →
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Fed Leaves Fed Funds Target Rate Unchanged at 1.50% to 1.75%, Plans to Take 2020 Off
The Federal Reserve voted unanimously today to leave the Fed Funds rate unchanged at 1.50% to 1.75%. This move was widely expected after Chairman Jerome Powell and other Fed governors signaled that they were comfortable with where... Read →
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December 2019 Savings and CD Account Update – Cash Is Safe
I began BestCashCow’s November newsletter by saying that it was hard to get excited about cash. It is still hard to get excited about cash with the Fed Funds target remaining at a range of 1.50% to 1.75%. But, in the last month,... Read →
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Bask Bank, American Airlines AAdvantage Miles, Silliness?
Editor's Note: This article was originally written in December 2019 when Bask Bank had a soft launch of its new American AAdvantage product. In January 2020 after Bask Bank released the full details of the product, the author realized... Read →
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Be Careful With Savings Products from Credit Karma, Wealthfront, Betterment and SoFi
The last few months have seen the emergence of non-bank savings products that purport to be FDIC-insured often to amounts higher than the FDIC limits that online banks are able to offer ($250,000 for individuals, $500,000 for... Read →
November 2019 Update – Getting Harder and Harder to Get Excited About Cash
The Federal Reserve lowered the Fed Funds target to 1.50% to 1.75% on October 31, marking its third rate cut this year and causing many of the most recognized online banks to lower their savings’ offers below 2%. The paradox is... Read →
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