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When intertwining your finances with others, whether that’s your life partner, business partner, friend or your kid, you can use a joint checking account to make things easier and more convenient. The ...

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High-yield checking accounts that pay high rates of interest aren’t easy to come by. Instead, savings accounts tend to be kings of the deposit account world when it comes to annual percentage yields.

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