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Savings Accounts Still a Vital Part of Every Financial Plan

February 2, 2010
By Andrew Freiburghouse | Money-Rates Columnist

Once you start to acquire money, people who manage money tend to start appearing. Financial advisors who can guide you in the ways of stocks, bonds, and maybe even real estate.

Once you’re savvy to those options, having money in a savings account can come to seem rather boring. Finding a high interest savings account online may provide a temporary rush, but to the investor with an agitated mind, the yield on a savings account will not exactly set your heart racing.

However, there is no excuse for going without a healthy savings account if at all possible.

Possessing a healthy savings account can help you deal with:

– Job loss

– Medical bills

– Car repair

In other words, the unexpected things of life that inevitably occur.

With the savings rate in America on the rise, it appears that more people are remembering the importance of funding your savings account. And remember is the right word for it, because anyone who learned anything about money as a child can remember the mystique of opening your first savings account.

As this bank study indicates, the goal of a savings account for every American is not yet even close to reality. In fact, 17 million Americans have no bank account at all.

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