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Stories for September 2007
Stories for Friday, September 28
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ThePudding.com - Get free long distance onlineSpiralFrog.com - Get free music onlineSling Box - Watch your TV virtually anywhere in the worldMAXroam.com - Use your cell phone abroad for a low costAT&T High-speed Internet Service for $10 - The latest on the deal they keep trying to hide!
MAXroam SIM chip allows cheap overseas cell phone use
During Clark's recent trip to Montana, he was talking with a waiter who is engaged to a Peruvian woman and went down to Peru to meet her family. The waiter found that his cell phone worked in Peru so he used it as he normally would. When he got back ...
Which way will oil prices go?
In the latest installment of Clarkonomics, Clark discussed some predictions about the price of oil. The current price is about $83/barrel, while a gallon at wholesale costs an average of $2.08. Now Clark is hearing some predictions of prices hitting $100/barrel. Meanwhile, Forbes recently ran an article suggesting that oil ...
Sling Box converts your computer into your home TV
There's a new product that could impact the way you watch TV. While TiVo allowed people to alter their viewing schedule, Sling Box allows you to change where you watch TV. This should really appeal to travelers. Here's how it works: Say there's a football team you love and you're ...
ThePudding, SpiralFrog offer free long distance and music
Clark has two free deals to share that each comes with its own catch. The Internet has been through so much in its brief history. In the "dot.bomb era," as Clark calls it, practically anything you wanted could be found for free online. Back in the mid-'90s, Clark mentioned during ...
Stories for Thursday, September 27
Clark pushes for an economic solution to the airline crunch
Clark and his wife recently took a trip to Montana with another couple. Why Montana? Because the tickets were on sale and it was a great airfare deal. Clark loves the beauty of our country's entire mountain state region. He and his wife got to do so many wonderful outdoor ...
Two credit bureaus issue new rules allowing credit freezes
There's good news for consumers who don't live in one of the nearly 40 states with credit-freeze laws on the books. TransUnion and Equifax have now agreed to allow non-victims of ID theft in such states to freeze their credit for a cost of $10 beginning Oct. 15. If that ...
Latest crib recall affects Graco and Simplicity brands
There's a new recall of children's cribs that parents need to know about. One million cribs sold under the Graco and Simplicity brands between 1998 and this past May pose a structural danger to babies. Following is a list of the affected cribs. There's more information available online or by ...
Two sides of the healthcare benefit coin
The recent GM strike highlights something important about healthcare benefits in our country. GM has historically been one of the most generous providers of healthcare to its employees. In fact, they've been so giving that employee and retiree healthcare has been something of an albatross around the company's neck. Now ...
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Graco/Simplicity crib recall info -- Check the model numbers or call 1-888-593-9274 for more infoClarkhoward.com -- A list of states that have credit-freeze lawsFTC.gov -- Visit the FTC's Identity Theft siteProsper.com - Borrow money online from individualsNational Foundation for Credit Counseling -- Get advice on debt management
Stories for Wednesday, September 26
Office Depot fined for overcharging customers at the register
When you check out at any store, it's practically universal that you'll be rung up by a scanner. This is a good thing for speeding up the checkout process, but a bad thing when deals aren't entered into the computer and you're overcharged at the register. The San Francisco Chronicle ...
Playing parking lot politics at the office
Clark believes that parking politics at the office builds walls between management and employees. CareerJournal.com recently ran an article that dissected the hierarchies used to determine who gets what reserved space. Companies that give preferred parking spaces to executives are sending the message to employees that they're chumps, according to ...
Clark's 8-year-old daughter applies for an AmEx card
Five years ago, Clark's daughter Stephanie was three years old and received a pre-approved offer for a Visa credit card -- what she then called a "Wisa" card. Stephanie loved the fake plastic card that came with the offer and often tried to scan it using her Barbie cash register. ...
Time Warner's privacy policy treads 1984 ground
Do you hate legal mumbo-jumbo? Well, consumer reporter David Lazarus recently read through Time Warner's entire 3,000 word privacy policy and terms of service. What he discovered is that Time Warner reserves the right to track the Internet habits of its high-speed customers. This info includes what websites you visit, ...
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Clark Smart Kids - Check out Clark's guide for investing and saving for youngsters
Stories for Tuesday, September 25
Wells Fargo developing workouts for struggling homeowners
Many years ago, Clark saw a bumper sticker that read, "He who has the gold makes the rules." There's a real truth to that phrase. For example, sometimes companies are so large that they get federally bailed out. That's what happened to Chrysler in 1979 when Lee Iacocca grabbed the ...
Women must have credit in their own names
There are changes coming to the way credit scores are calculated that could affect millions of women. For many years, people have been allowed to share their credit cards with authorized users. Husbands historically have done this for their spouses. But then some criminals figured out how to take the ...
Exploring the three-star nutrition labeling program
Restaurants often put healthy selections on the menu and then report that no one orders them. People claim they want healthy food, but what they say and what they order are two different things. Think about the frozen yogurt craze. People took what should be a low-fat healthy meal and ...
New mileage stickers, LED lighting coming
It's no surprise that we Americans are energy hogs. But everyday there are new developments that help us reduce our energy consumption. Soon auto shoppers will actually be able to believe the gas mileage stickers found on cars in dealer lots! The feds used to put fake numbers on the ...
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IRS.gov -- Download Form 9465 and file for a repayment plan
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