[Venturer]

Yeah right now the Money Markets are doing a little better.

I shopped around and found a CD that paid .40%, but it wasnt worth the 5 gallons of gas to go and have it changed to another bank.

[GregoryFul]

You ought to look into the many high dividend paying stocks these days. Tobacco stocks, MO, PM, LO, RAI: 4-6% (and increasing stock prices). Big pharma LLY, BMY, PFE: 3-5% (also increasing). Mortgage REITS AGNC, NLY, TWO: 13-20%; many agency guaranteed (as good as FDIC for sure). Integrated oil COP, XOM, RDS, TOT: 2-7% (and if gas goes up, your stock goes up - helps at the pump, and if Iran blows up, you get a windfall, no doubt). Telco VZ, T, WIN, FTR, CTL: 5-15%. And of course numerous utilities.

Real property, and money flow into the high quality, high dividend paying stocks, is now accelerating (price advances picking up almost across the board).

Opportunity for decent (and very generous) returns abound in the capital markets, don't settle for the paltry interest rates offered, you will be eaten alive by inflation!