Tips from Clark Howard
Millennials turn their backs on borrowing money
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds young adults carry a lot less debt than their parents. As a result of recession, the debts of people under 35 fell by 30%. At the same time, the debts of the overall population only dropped by 8%. Today's young people, ...
3 million jobs with good salaries go unfilled
There are more than 12 million people actively looking for work at a time when more than 3 million jobs are going unfilled across the country. Though that's still only one job for every three job seekers, the real problem is there's a disconnect between skill sets and job openings. ...
Back to school sales starting early this year
Retailers beset by dwindling confidence in the economy are rolling out back to school sales earlier than they might have in the past. I was in Target last week and noticed giant pencils pointing to back to school deals throughout the store. Then while in Wal-Mart, I could hardly walk ...
One woman's crusade against filthy fast food restaurant playgrounds
The fast food restaurant playgrounds are filthy and one woman is on the warpath to clean them up. Erin Carr-Jordan, a 37-year-old mother of four with a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, has been at war in Arizona and across the country with health departments and restaurants. She's incensed because they're ...
Honda boosts North American auto manufacturing
At a time of high unemployment, we're not necessarily suffering from a lack of manufacturing jobs here in the United States. We're actually suffering from a lack of skilled labor. It may sound crazy when I say to you that America is back strong as a manufacturer. But it's true. ...
Cruise deals and airfare deals coming this fall
This fall represents a great opportunity for cruise deals if you're looking to take to the high seas. Fall is traditionally a bargain time because it coincides with autumn hurricane season and the kids being back in school. But in the wake of August's debt ceiling standoff and U.S. debt ...
Bargain tips for the upcoming travel season
The calendar can be your best friend when you're planning travel. And right now, we are getting closer and closer to bargain season. September and October are just about the best bargain months of the year for people who want to go on cruises, people who want to go anywhere ...
Back-to-school travel deals
Back to school season means deals on travel if you can go during the bargain months of September and October. Clark shares his favorite category of trip for the early fall.
Clark discusses his background and motivation
We have new listeners all the time to The Clark Howard Show. I realized just recently during a guest appearance on another radio show that I have failed to adequately explain who I am and why I do what I do. I come at what I do with a serious ...
Clark forecasts winter heating expenses and gasoline costs
There's good news for you if you heat your home with oil, as many people do in New England. Home heating oil has tended to be disastrously expensive in the past. Clark recalls being a freshman at American University in Washington, D.C. during the 1973 oil embargo. At that time, ...
Sluggish computer sales mean Black Friday deals to come
Good news if you're in the market for a laptop or netbook. An abysmal back to school sales season will force retailers to offer some of the best prices ever on computers this holiday season. The weak back to school sales on laptops or netbooks are partly because the iPad ...
Tuition for an M.B.A. may be deductible
One of the themes throughout this Great Recession has been that of people losing their jobs, worrying about job loss or fretting that their chosen profession is toast and won't be making a comeback when the economy recovers. Clark himself had great success in his early 20s in the travel ...
Weak back to school sales signal more deals coming
The back to school season has bombed for retailers. In several parts of the country, kids are already back to school, and in others, they'll be back over the next two weeks or so. But enough early numbers are in to paint a very scary picture...and back to school is ...
Weak back to school sales signal more deals coming
The back to school season has bombed for retailers. In several parts of the country, kids are already back to school, and in others, they'll be back over the next 2 weeks or so. But enough early numbers are in to paint a very scary picture...and back to school is ...
Colleges taking kickbacks from book publishers
First, the student loan kickback scandal on college campuses...and now this. The Wall Street Journal reports that some schools are now taking kickbacks from book publishers. For several years, publishers have had to compete against the online used book market for college texts. So they eventually came up with the ...
Employment forecast not all doom and gloom
CLARKONOMICS: There's bad news on the job front with the unemployment rate rising from 4.8% to 5.1% and employers reporting 3 consecutive months of job losses. We may be at the beginning of more trouble. But the irony is that we're starting from a good spot. Economists never even thought ...
Can your favorite candidate fix what ails your wallet?
CLARKONOMICS: This has been the year of the underdog -- just look at the Super Bowl. The heavily favored New England Patriots lost to the very inspired New York Giants. The Giants may not have had the talent, but they did have the heart. Clark predicted the Patriots would take ...
Reap the benefits of retail's slow holiday season
The holiday shopping season was worse than expected by retail. Circuit City sales dropped 10 percent in December, and that's in the hot realm of electronics. The flip side to this story is that now there are great deals out there in the retail world. January is the sweetest month ...
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