[bobleeswagger]

$8 million in cash will always be $8 million in cash. "Stashed it away" is pretty vague but cash is cash.

[tarboreus]

Only if you literally mean physical cash. Banks offered pretty significant interest rates historically.

[kgwgk]

Why say “stash away” if not to suggest the literal “hiding the money somewhere” meaning rather than “opening a savings account”?

[jldugger]

With the slight caveat that the FDIC wouldnt exist until a decade after you put your money in and in no case would it protect all 8 million dollars.