checking account

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Use a high-yield, liquid account, like a Vanguard Cash Plus, for flexibility, easy transfers to a checking account and, given your cautious-to-moderate risk profile, earning 3% to 5% interest.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Second, a Warsh Fed would need to neutralize swings in the government’s checking account at the Fed.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

It could go into a checking account instead—there’s cash in those, too—but no net money “went into” the market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Filling out the line after “Pay to the order of” with “Verizon” or “American Express” gave the payment a dimension beyond the Monopoly-money world of a few clicks on my checking account.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Eventually she made him open a separate checking account for the lab, and kept him away from their personal money as much as she could.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot