Is your checking account too fat? How to tell and what to do about it

Americans are stuffing their checking accounts with more cash than ever before, and that may not be a good thing. The average checking account balance was $5,459 in the first quarter of 2015 — more than double the norm prior to 2008 — according to the economic research firm Moebs Services.

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