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The Hidden Cost of Keeping Cash Safe
Most people treat their emergency fund as a static safety net, but in today’s low-yield environment, that strategy carries a silent tax. We break down the specific trade-off between liquidity and opportunity cost using the current ten-year Treasury yield as our baseline. Lucas walks through the math of what your cash is actually costing you in lost purchasing power over a three-year horizon, while Luna challenges the assumption that higher yields always mean better protection. We look at one specific household scenario where shifting just twenty percent of reserves into a short-term bond…
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