Most Americans do not have emergency funds, a seemingly small oversight that likely has very large repercussions. This podcast (6:11) argues that the absence of such funds lies at the root of a hazard that reduces retirement savings by about a fifth, a “leakage” that amounted to $69 trillion in a year, in one recent U.S. government study.
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