The five pound meal deal from McDonald's.

Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets and a medium soft drink for guess what?

That's right, five pounds.

It's not called the five pound meal deal for nothing.

From 11 AM, not available on delivery.

Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.

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hi this is tom cock welcome to talking real money now my heart truly goes out to many of you. Many of you have been great savers.

You scrimped.

You set money aside for the future.

And now the future's here.

And you don't want to take a lot of risk with your money, but you want to make something on it.

And you're calling me.

You're saying, I had all of this money in CDs that were paying me

two, two and a half percent that I used that income to add to my retirement and made things

pretty decent. And now my bank is telling me if I want to renew that CD, that matured CD, that they're going to give me

seven-tenths of one percent or something like that for an extended period of time. And yeah,

it kind of does break my heart because what do you do? What do you do with this safe money in

this extremely low-interest environment that we find ourselves in that I think

we're going to find ourselves in for some time because the Federal Reserve has decided to keep rates

very, very low for an extended period of time. So before we talk about what you should do,

let's talk about some of the things you shouldn't do because I read with great interest in our local paper in Seattle, the Seattle Times with a lengthy article that

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