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Posted over 3 years ago

Get your money out of the bank!

My bank just notified me that my savings account interest rate went up from 0.50% to a whopping 0.60%!

Wahoo! I'm making bank at the bank now. Thank you inflation! ๐Ÿ˜‚

There's got to be a better way, right? In this current environment, it is more important than ever that we are careful and diversified in what we invest in and where we are parking our cash.

Take note of the following:

#1 ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ž

Losses in the stock market are not real losses until you sell. It's probably not wise to sell in this current environment.

#2 ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ 

If you have ๐ง๐จ๐ง-๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐ cash sitting in the bank, then you are losing money. For example, if you have $100,000 in the bank and they are paying you 0.60% interest as my bank is and the current inflation rate is 8%, that means your dollar in the bank is worth 7.4% less (8%-0.60%). Even though you now have the $100,600 in the bank, your buying power went down because prices just went up 8%.

#3 ๐‹๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ฌ

Diversification is important in this current environment. By spreading out your investments, you are able to minimize negative impacts and spread out the risks. One of these assets is PHYSICAL real estate. ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—œ๐—ง๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป.

But wait, there's more! ๐™Š๐™ฌ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฅ๐™๐™ฎ๐™จ๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ก ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก ๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™–๐™ก๐™จ๐™ค ๐™๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ ๐™—๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™›๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™™๐™š๐™›๐™š๐™ง๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ญ ๐™—๐™ช๐™ง๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™™๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ž๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ. ๐™๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ข๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™œ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™–๐™จ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™˜๐™ ๐™š๐™ฉ.



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