It's Finance Friday, another special edition of Money Girl where I answer your burning money questions.

Today's topic comes from Sarah, who says, I'm starting my first real job with benefits soon and I should have a little money left each month to start investing.

I want to make it grow as fast as possible. My question is, how do

wealthy people invest their money? Thanks so much for your question, Sarah.

While you can invest money in endless ways, I'm going to review the best place wealthy people grow their money and so can you.

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Sarah, I really appreciate your question, I want to recommend that before you do anything

with your extra money that you know its purpose, for instance, should you save it for emergencies or significant purchases you want to make within a year or two?

Maybe it's a car or some other goal that you have?

That's essential for managing hardships like losing your job or paying for

unexpected out-of-pocket medical bills. Your emergency savings should never be

invested that's why it's called savings. You don't want to

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