Say you have $1mm in cash, is it plausible to put it all in a HYSA and take the monthly interest payments as income at say 3% APY and then quit your job?

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Yea you can, although you’d want no more than $250k in a single account for FDIC insurance

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Gotcha that makes sense, thanks !

Cont: don’t read too much into amounts, can easily switch out the total amount of cash and the APY for the exercise, just curious about the concept

You can put it in Treasuries and get 4.3%. Probably not any safer than that.

The interest on HYSA is typically about the same as inflation, so effectively you are spending down your (real) principal.
But if you have enough money, sure you can do it.

It’s unlikely to be the best return though, so you might end up working longer than you had to.

Hahaha yeah absolutely agree, was just a general (far-fetched) question

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