Clark's Topics and Guides
Clark Howard's most recent show notes, guides and videos, categorized by topic.
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Business & Entrepreneurs
- Businesses: Lock in office space rents now
- More companies go green to make green
- New job dissatisfaction stats are a wakeup call for employers
- How to deal with big 401(k) fees
- Small business confidence picking up
- Best Buy article hits a nerve with disgruntled shoppers, employees
- Bank of America shuttering some small business lines of credit
- Websites that connect service people, errand runners with clients
- Customer service often the weak link in security breaches
- Small businesses being targeted by con artists
- Small business lending slack being picked up by P2P lenders
- Helping customers spend less builds loyalty
- Employers can make affordable payday loans to employees
- Rags-to-riches story inspires during tough economic times
- video : Make Extra Cash with Car Sharing
Cars and Transportation
- Less gasoline tax revenue poses problem for roads and their upkeep
- video : Get automated alerts for auto recalls
- Prices headed up in all sectors of auto industry
- Energy independence without gov't involvement
- Shop auto and home insurance to save money
- video : A good time for car loans
- video : Finding the best price on a car
- Get automatically notified if your vehicle is recalled
- video : Lane departure prevention coming to a car near you
- 2012 is the year of the cheap auto loan
- Allstate introduces claim satisfaction guarantee
- video : Online car buying scam
- Honda has beef with TrueCar.com
- How to prepare for the possibility of $5/gallon gas
- Used car leasing can be dangerous to your wallet
Consumer Issues & ID Theft
- Top retailers named by American Customer Satisfaction Index
- New FCC rules will limit "robocalls"
- video : Get automated alerts for auto recalls
- New website to resolve consumer complaints
- How to outsmart email "phishing" scams
- Rebates more hassle than they're worth?
- Target takes on showrooming
- Clark Smart security apps for smart phones
- Get automatically notified if your vehicle is recalled
- Your rights when dealing with debt collectors
- Chase allegedly changed the amounts due on delinquent accounts
- Facebook, Google wrestle with privacy questions
- Supreme Court ruling allows for privacy from government, but not corporations
- Free software blocks spybot tracking on the web
- Supreme Court rules in favor of mandatory arbitration
Deals & Money Savers
- Top retailers named by American Customer Satisfaction Index
- video : Heads-up advice for furniture shoppers
- Leap Year Day will be full of bargains for deal hunters
- video : Comparison-shop your dental care
- Beware of fake online consumer reviews
- New online funeral shopping site launches
- video : Smartphone app compares prescription deals
- Must you spend more to eat well?
- LEDs, CFLs and traditional lightbulbs: A savings comparison.
- Smaller airlines spur airfare deals across industry
- video : Affordable Pet Meds at the grocery store
- Is Clark as cheap as he claims? You decide...
- video : When and were to book your travel
- Store brands upping the quality and the price
- T-Mobile's one-day sale Saturday: Free 4G smartphones!
Economy & Market Trends
- Clark's response to the survivalist mentality
- Signs that the U.S. economy is on the mend
- Prices headed up in all sectors of auto industry
- Energy independence without gov't involvement
- Eliminate income tax to spur economic growth
- New mortgage settlement benefits 1 million homeowners
- Americans saving more and spending less has economists worried
- State-by-state listing of how we're doing saving money
- New job dissatisfaction stats are a wakeup call for employers
- Small business confidence picking up
Environment & Energy
- Less gasoline tax revenue poses problem for roads and their upkeep
- Energy independence without gov't involvement
- More companies go green to make green
- How to prepare for the possibility of $5/gallon gas
- video : Homes that have no power bills now being built
- Chargers that don't waste energy coming soon
- Detroit Auto Show promises better fuel economy, more options
- Net zero energy homes now being built
- United States to export more petroleum products than we import
- Apple refugee re-imagines the programmable thermostat
Employment & Military
- Saddled with a 403(b) plan? You have better options.
- Online posts can come back to bite
- video : 401(k) fees soon to be revealed
- Dangers of performance-enhancing supplements
- Businesses: Lock in office space rents now
- Some states ban using credit reports to eliminate potential job candidates
- video : Free FICO scores for military personnel
- Free FICO credit score available to active duty military personnel
- Websites that connect service people, errand runners with clients
- video : Why you need credit in your own name
- Big banks reviewing military foreclosures for compliance
- New option for self-published authors may help them break into big leagues
- video : A timely tip for job hunters
- November job numbers make a strong showing
- Why credit protection insurance is a rip-off
Education
- Clark's tips on saving for college
- 529 plans trump life insurance policies to pay for college
- video : Life Insurance As College Fund?
- New rules for student loan payments coming in 2012
- video : Highest Paying 2-Year Degrees
- College kids and 20-somethings are prime targets for ID theft
- Finding cheap textbooks online
- Amazon now renting digital textbooks
- Three-year degree programs not popular with students
- video : Keep spending in check with this pre-paid card
- Two simple rules for student loan borrowing
- State rules against charter schools
- video : Earn The Most With These College Majors
- Battle of the states over education
- Finding money for college without getting ripped off
Family & Lifestyle
- Buy level term life insurance to help dependents in the event of your death
- New online funeral shopping site launches
- LEDs, CFLs and traditional lightbulbs: A savings comparison.
- Online posts can come back to bite
- video : Affordable Pet Meds at the grocery store
- Is Clark as cheap as he claims? You decide...
- Doing Valentine's Day the Clark Smart way
- Redbox and Verizon launching Netflix competitor
- $4 generic meds for pets at Kroger and Target
- Advance directive forms available for free online
- Clark's tips on saving for college
- Tracking your pet with a GPS-enabled collar
- Ticket prices for sports, concerts to vary based on market conditions
- New option for self-published authors may help them break into big leagues
- Why having a will is necessary and how to get one in place
Health & Health Care
- 3-D printer used to make prosthetic jaw
- Buy level term life insurance to help dependents in the event of your death
- video : Comparison-shop your dental care
- New online funeral shopping site launches
- video : Smartphone app compares prescription deals
- Must you spend more to eat well?
- LEDs, CFLs and traditional lightbulbs: A savings comparison.
- Online posts can come back to bite
- Dangers of performance-enhancing supplements
- video : Affordable Pet Meds at the grocery store
- Is Clark as cheap as he claims? You decide...
- Doing Valentine's Day the Clark Smart way
- Redbox and Verizon launching Netflix competitor
- video : A more affordable health plan
- $4 generic meds for pets at Kroger and Target
Personal Finance & Credit
- video : Heads-up advice for furniture shoppers
- Less gasoline tax revenue poses problem for roads and their upkeep
- Is the time right to get back in the stock market?
- video : "Pump and Dump" stock scams
- Saving for retirement later in life?
- Playing it safe in the stock market is way too dangerous
- Chase agrees to settlement in overdraft fee class action lawsuit
- Saddled with a 403(b) plan? You have better options.
- Leading tax prep companies offer free smart phone tax filing
- Don't blindly trust electronic transactions
- Capital One buying ING Direct: Should you bail?
- video : 401(k) fees soon to be revealed
- Is Clark as cheap as he claims? You decide...
- Eliminate income tax to spur economic growth
- Some states ban using credit reports to eliminate potential job candidates
Scams & Rip-Offs
- video : "Pump and Dump" stock scams
- Beware of fake online consumer reviews
- Chase agrees to settlement in overdraft fee class action lawsuit
- Saddled with a 403(b) plan? You have better options.
- New FCC rules will limit "robocalls"
- Don't blindly trust electronic transactions
- video : Should you trust financial radio shows?
- How to outsmart email "phishing" scams
- Some states ban using credit reports to eliminate potential job candidates
- Early tax filers wait for refunds as the IRS fights ID theft
- Pump and dump scams make a comeback
- TV/talk show host sentenced for Ponzi scheme
- Chase allegedly changed the amounts due on delinquent accounts
- video : Online car buying scam
- The pros and cons of social media
Shopping & Retail
- Top retailers named by American Customer Satisfaction Index
- video : Heads-up advice for furniture shoppers
- video : Comparison-shop your dental care
- Beware of fake online consumer reviews
- video : Smartphone app compares prescription deals
- Must you spend more to eat well?
- LEDs, CFLs and traditional lightbulbs: A savings comparison.
- video : Affordable Pet Meds at the grocery store
- Is Clark as cheap as he claims? You decide...
- Store brands upping the quality and the price
- video : An end to "Vampire electronics"
- Rebates more hassle than they're worth?
- Target takes on showrooming
- Dollar stores grow by offering great deals
- Thrift stores introduce loyalty programs
Technology
- Top retailers named by American Customer Satisfaction Index
- 3-D printer used to make prosthetic jaw
- Local network TV is coming anytime, anywhere, on any device
- Beware of fake online consumer reviews
- video : Smartphone app compares prescription deals
- Don't blindly trust electronic transactions
- AT&T throttling speeds for unlimited data customers
- Capital One buying ING Direct: Should you bail?
- Online posts can come back to bite
- New website to resolve consumer complaints
- T-Mobile's one-day sale Saturday: Free 4G smartphones!
- video : An end to "Vampire electronics"
- Redbox and Verizon launching Netflix competitor
- video : The alternative smartphone operating system
- Printing on the go gets easier from your mobile device
Travel
- Preview the latest segments of Clark Stinks
- Smaller airlines spur airfare deals across industry
- video : When and were to book your travel
- Travel agents compete for your cruise bookings
- video : Clark Howard plays goalie!
- Nation's air traffic safety gets major overhaul
- Bank signing bonuses reported as taxable income
- Best time and website for buying airline tickets
- Hotel industry launches booking site to compete with Priceline
- Buy third party trip insurance before a cruise
- The Italian cruise ship disaster and its impact on the industry
- Timeshare reselling scam busted
- Cheap bus lines offer travel between metro areas
- video : Maximize your brain power with these 5 changes
- video : Clark's store-brand challenge
Clark's Greatest Hits
- Clark's 529 Guide
- Best Discount Investment Brokers
- Browser Alternatives
- Burglar Alarm Buying Tips
- Car Accident Guide
- Cell Phone Portability Tips
- Communicating Overseas
- Charity Donation Guide
- Clark Smart Kids
- Clark's Graveyard
- Sample Complaint Letters
- Collect Call Phone Scam
- Paying Off Credit Card Debt
- Credit Freeze and Thaw Guide
- Credit Score Guide
- State Defense Force Sign Up
- Donating Old Cars, Computers & Cell Phones
- Online tax filing resources
- ETF Guide
- FHA Refund Guide/Unclaimed Money
- Firewall Protection Resources
- First-time homebuyer tips
- Foreclosure Guide
- The Free and Cheap List
- Free credit report info
- Free TV/Movies Online Guide
- Georgia Natural Gas Guide
- Georgia State Defense Force
- How Health Savings Accounts Work
- Identity Theft Guide
- Internet Access Glossary
- Internet Telephony List
- Inventions & Patents
- Clark's Investment Guide
- IRS Service Centers
- Tips for Improving your Laundry Results
- Legal Self-Help Sites by State
- Letter of Final Wishes
- Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney FAQs
- Long Distance Deals
- Long Term Care Insurance Honor Roll
- Military Manual & Guide
- Prescription Plan Guide
- Online Auction Fraud Guide
- Opt Out: Credit Card Offers
- Record and File Keeping
- Mortgage Refinance Guide
- Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?
- Self Publishing Guide
- Spam Help
- Student Loan Guide
- Travel and Trip Insurance Guide
- Unemployment Insurance Guide
- Virus, Spyware and Malware Protection Guide
- Work at Home Guide
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