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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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Do you have a dangerous credit personality?
Are you someone who sees something in a store and buys it right on the spot? You might have a "credit personality" that could wreck your finances over time. If that sounds like you, Clark has some advice.
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Fast Business Loans for Online Merchants
If you're an online merchant, there's a new startup that's in the business of making loans strictly to e-sellers like you. Within 10 minutes of completing the online application, you could have money in your bank account!
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How To Build Your Financial Future
In this special web-only feature, Clark talks one-on-one with you, providing his best strategies for securing your financial future.
Ways to fight back against scavenger debt collectors
The number of calls I've been getting from people who are receiving weirdo contacts from scavenger debt collectors has skyrocketed. In many cases, the debt doesn't belong to those who contact me. In other cases, the debt may be 10, 20 or 30 years old and legally unenforceable. The ...
Electronic pickpocketing risk for some credit cards
Millions of Americans who have credit cards equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips for easy use can also have their account info stolen with relative ease by criminals. Cards with RFID chips are designed to make credit card transactions simple by allowing cardholders to wave their card in front ...
Free credit report info
Are you getting all your free credit reports? Due to the passage of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA), all Americans are entitled to one free credit report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -- upon request every 12 ...
Beware of Temporary Loan Modifications
These days there are more people underwater on their mortgages than ever, so it's no surprise that Clark's Consumer Action Center gets so many calls about loan modifications. The most problematic ones are the "temporary modifications." This is when a lender might ask you to, say, pay half of your ...
Take advantage of your free credit report once a year
When is the last time you checked your credit report? Some people never do. Those are the ones who could become susceptible to deceptive loan tactics. For example, let's say you're at a car dealership. The salesman might put on a big show, saying how difficult it was, but that ...
A heads up for investors regarding municipal bonds
Here's a special alert for investors regarding municipal bonds. Municipal bonds usually benefit those in the mid- to high-income range, because they are exempt from federal income tax. States, cities and counties issue these with a lower rate of interest because of the tax benefit that flows to the highest ...
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