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by bpt3 121 days ago
No, the bank pays you interest on your deposit to entice you to deposit money there so they can lend it out. There is literally zero risk involved (other than something on the scale of the collapse of the US government, which no one is really considering here) because of the FDIC, and yet interest rates on FDIC protected assets are not 0%.