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WinkyDink

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9. I said it decades ago: The reduction of interest rates for SAVINGS was this plan's push. People for-

Reply to madokie (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2014, 07:57 AM

May 2014

get that the Carter Years saw HUGE interest rates for Certificates of Deposit. All Americans do now is bash the rates for LOANS back then, but ask my mother and others of the Greatest Generation now when they made the bulk of their saved money. They'll tell you: The Carter Years.

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