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Stories for October 2007
Stories for Wednesday, October 31
Capital One gets a pat on the back from Clark
For the last few years, Clark has trashed Capital One -- one of the nation's largest credit card issuers and the purveyors of those memorable "What's in Your Wallet?" commercials that people either love or hate. Well, today the company gets some praise from Clark because it's agreed to change ...
Beware of impostor money market fund investments
There's a lot of turmoil in the savings world -- once considered the safest part of market -- and much of it involves money market mutual funds. Money market funds are not federally insured, but have historically been designed to be a safe place to put your money and allow ...
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Spybot - Search & Destroy - Detects and removes spyware from your computer for free Landlord.com - Find out how to check a tenant's creditToday's topics are "Best Of Clark" repeats from recent shows
Feds offering new guidelines for home loan lending
It's no secret that the nation's housing market is in bad shape. Foreclosures in California are at an all-time high, and the market is equally hurt in Nevada, Arizona and Washington D.C. How did we get in this mess? Well, after 9/11 people became nesters and saw their homes as ...
E-greetings may contain dangerous spyware
Have you been receiving phony e-greeting cards in your inbox lately? If you open these, you might get spyware and others kinds of malware on your computer. Clark is really upset about this trend because e-greeting cards should be a pleasant thing. Unfortunately, something so innocent has been corrupted. The ...
Stories for Tuesday, October 30
Most cost-effective hybrid vehicles named
There's one call that Clark has taken on the air about 60 times over the years, and he's never been able to answer it convincingly: Is it worth it to pay the extra bucks to buy a hybrid just to pay less in gas every week? Now Edmunds.com has done ...
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MagicJack.com - Make unlimited local and domestic long-distance calls for $40/year
CPSC campaigning to keep dangerous toys on shelves?!
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has been front and center in Clark's mind over the whole issue of unsafe Chinese toys getting into our marketplace and harming children. This is a federal agency that's charged with seeing that dangerous products get pulled. But the CPSC really isn't doing that ...
Cali., ATL eyeing controversial energy-efficiency actions
American companies have done a great job reducing their energy consumption over the last decade. In most cases, they don't necessarily do so to be good corporate citizens; businesses do it because it saves them money. But individuals have great difficulty implementing changes that are easy for businesses. There's a ...
75 million have no access to retirement-savings plans
Did you know that half of all American families haven't saved for retirement? Of those who have, 25 percent have stockpiled living expenses for one year of retirement. The problem is that we have not adjusted to the changes in retirement savings since Social Security is weakening and employer-provided pensions ...
Stories for Monday, October 29
BoSox fans enjoy free furniture promo
What a year it's been for Boston! The Red Sox swept the World Series, the New England Patriots are the best team in pro football right now and Boston College's football team is doing very well. A Boston-area store called Jordan's Furniture ran a promotion back in late winter/early spring ...
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Credit Union National Association - See which credit unions you're eligible to join WorkingAmerica.org - A union-sponsored contest to find the worst boss in America
Wal-Mart vs. the Black Friday websites
Many people have been logging on to Black Friday websites to get the early word about retail deals well in advance of the Friday after Thanksgiving. Retailers have just barely been tolerating the existence of these sites. After all, they don't really want their competition to know about their pricing. ...
FCC to free up cable choices for renters
Renters are about to enjoy the benefits of more competition for their cable business. The FCC plans to announce that landlords can no longer rip-off tenants by dictating which TV/cable/Internet providers they can use. Landlords previously could receive huge kickbacks from little private cable companies by signing exclusive deals for ...
Halloween treats get healthy
Clark recently saw healthy Halloween treats in the candy aisle at a supermarket. Who really wants to be the Scrooge who ruins the holiday for kids by handing out nutritionally smart treats? Yet there was a recent article in the The Los Angeles Times about the growing healthy Halloween candy ...
Stories for Friday, October 26
Virgin mogul entering the peer-to-peer lending game
Richard Branson has a reputation for developing business ventures that give some very unfriendly industries a customer-service makeover. Two of his products in the U.S. market are the elegant discount-fare airline Virgin America and the pre-paid cell phone company Virgin Mobile USA. Now Branson wants to turn his attention to ...
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VirginMoneyUS.com - A new peer-to-peer lending siteZenniOptical.com - Get discount prescription eyeglasses online or call 1-800-211-2105 (Editor's note: This website may not be accessible from some browsers)MagicJack.com - Make unlimited local and domestic long-distance calls for $40/year
Franchises are hot when economy cools down
We're in a cyclical time of increased entrepreneurship right now. This usually happens whenever the economy slows down and people get laid off. That's when mid-career corporate employees decide this is the last chance to go into business for themselves. They get swept away by presentations at hotel ballrooms touting ...
New camera technology makes spy cams a workplace reality
Clark is one man who's used to being on camera -- whether it's during the course of his TV work or when he's in the studio for his radio show. Camera technology has become so cheap that there's an eye in the sky almost everywhere you look. In fact, the ...
Stories for Thursday, October 25
DoA revamps E. coli response initiatives
Clark recently trashed the U.S. Department of Agriculture for keeping mum about a known E. coli infestation at a food-processing plant. The case involved a New Jersey food supplier that churned out tainted products for weeks even though the DoA was fully aware of what was going on. There were ...
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