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Avoid "Croke & Choke" banking practices
Your bank is perfectly happy to take care of your credit card payments in the event you can't meet your obligations because you become disabled or die. But at what cost to you?
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Heads-up advice for furniture shoppers
There are a few circumstances where plastic trumps cash, check or debit card. If you're a homeowner, you'll want to pay close attention to this one!
Is the time right to get back in the stock market?
CLARKONOMICS: Is now the time for you to jump in with both feet into stocks? Earlier today, the Dow crossed the 13,000 mark for the first time since 2008. Suddenly people are abuzz about stocks again. If you pulled your money out at the trough of three years ago, you ...
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"Pump and Dump" stock scams
Ever gotten a hot stock tip sent through your Facebook or Twitter account? Here's why you should think twice before buying that highly touted penny stock.
Saving for retirement later in life?
I've always said that you should save a dime out of every dollar you make as a general rule of thumb. But what if you're playing catch-up later in life trying to save for retirement? Way before the Internet, back when people actually went to bookstores to buy books, the ...
Playing it safe in the stock market is way too dangerous
People constantly tell me they're too afraid of stocks. They're looking for "safety," but what does "safe" really mean? I picked up a recent issue of Barron's and the cover blared "Enter the Bull," as in a bull market. The story within offered a prediction that the Dow could top ...
Chase agrees to settlement in overdraft fee class action lawsuit
I have yet another story about another bank behaving badly and an assignment for you. Chase Bank will have to paying more than $100 million to settle a lawsuit about how they cheated you if you overdrew your checking account. Let me say this: Chase was not alone in all ...
Saddled with a 403(b) plan? You have better options.
If you ask Congress about teachers, you'll hear a lot of rosy rhetoric about how valued they are, and how important they are to society. But then they turn around and treat them like dirt. Congress sticks teachers and non-profit workers with a piece-of-trash retirement program called a 403(b). The ...
Leading tax prep companies offer free smart phone tax filing
If you have a relatively simple financial life, don't pay someone to do your taxes this year. There are several options available for free tax preparation and e-filing. The Free File program continues this year through the IRS. This program allows people who have adjusted gross incomes of $57,000 or ...
Don't blindly trust electronic transactions
For some reason, consumers tend to give electronic transactions more credibility than human transactions. This makes no sense, since humans programmed the transaction software to begin with. Mistakes happen in either case, and Clark wants to share a few recent occurrences in hopes that it might inspire you to become ...
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