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CLARK'S TIP TOPICS
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- The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter
- Advance-fee loans are back with a vengeance
- Wachovia, WaMu say goodbye to option payment loans
- Cycling your unused credit cards back into the mix
- Banks offer diverging interest rates on savings and CDs
- Mortgage bailout proposal to help banks, not homeowners
- Credit limits being reduced without your knowledge?!
- 65 million paying for credit monitoring/fraud alert services
- Credit unions offer the nearest thing to a free lunch
- Online loans at interest rates of 2,000%!
- Maximum Earnings checking account pays 6% APY
- More banks following BoA's lead on ATM surcharge hikes
- Lower interest rates open refinancing window
- ATM fees topped $4 billion last year
- New guidelines proposed for credit card industry
- 40 cents for a stolen credit card number?!
- Payday lender starving out food bank
- Students seeking loans from peer-to-peer lenders
- Free credit score now available online
- Student loan consolidation rates to hit 3.25%
- HELOCs being yanked with no warning
- Insure your money above FDIC limits with CDARS
- Bailout fever strikes Washington
- Hospitals running credit checks before treatment
- Credit cards milk you by switching from floating to fixed rates
- Bank failures highlight importance of FDIC limits
- Countrywide, Wachovia show mortgage market foolishness
- Credit cards and college students don't mix
- Many banks fail to disclose fees and rules
- Behind the rising personal bankruptcy trend
- Beware of using debit cards at the car rental counter
- Consumer recession is upon us
- FDIC hiring retirees to deal with bank failures
- Wachovia allowing illegal drafts from checking accounts
- Fee harvesting is the latest ploy by credit card companies
- Maximum Earnings checking account pays 6% APY
- New bill promises to control credit card companies
- Clark examines the flip side of the housing crunch
- Bush unveils voluntary plan for homeowner aid
- Federal mortgage bailout not all it's cracked up to be
- Maximize home resale value in a tough market
- Housing market, Wall St. both point to recession
- Mortgage lenders working the mail to solicit new business
- Getting inside a homebuyer's head
- Fires teach tough lesson about homeowners insurance
- The return of orphan subdivisions
- When workouts will work for those facing foreclosure
- Renters affected by landlords' mortgage woes
- Housing market may not be as dire as you think
- Wells Fargo developing workouts for struggling homeowners
- Breaking out of the minimum payment cycle
- More banks following BoA's lead on ATM surcharge hikes
- An investor's angle on the market slump
- Making sense of the Fed's move and the coming rebates
- Mortgage lenders working the mail to solicit new business
- Banks, credit unions offer great savings/CD rates
- Gift card protection available online
- Great time to refinance your mortgage
- Tax season and CD hazards abound
- New online money management tools
- Retirement savings efforts need a booster shot
- Bill Me Later a win/win for online shoppers and merchants
- Halt the growth of ID theft with a credit freeze
- New online money management tools
- Citi/Macy's issuing new CCs to 3.5 million inactive accounts
- Stored-value cards can help those with poor credit
- Fee harvesting is the latest ploy by credit card companies
- Donate shares instead of dollars this holiday season
- Go safe, not sexy, on short-term investment strategy
- J.D. Power names best and worst credit cards
- Zopa provides new twist on social lending model
- E*TRADE's woes teach us to stay below FDIC limits
- Oil, propane users to face biggest spike in heating costs
- Mortgage lenders get into the CD business
- Is bankruptcy ever a smart way to avoid foreclosure?
- Accelerated mortgages are a rip-off
- Feds offering new guidelines for home loan lending
- Generation X faces huge lifestyle debt
- The danger of exceeding FDIC limits in a bank failure
- Beware of online loan sharks
- Women must have credit in their own names
- Pre-loan counseling could help address the foreclosure epidemic
- Clark Smart ways to get in control of credit card debt
- Research mortgage options when buying a home
- Credit cards, car loans getting ready to tighten standards
- The best and worst credit cards in America
- The increasing trend of credit card delinquency
- Why debit cards are such a rip-off
- Capital One gets a pat on the back
- Feds offering new guidelines for home loan lending
- New credit card rules about to happen!
- Three ways to avoid having your checks washed
- Prioritize your debts
- Get credit report errors removed the right way
- Fidelity 529 card changing; other rewards cards
- Citi changes its anti-consumer policies
- Criminal ring takes over swiping machines
- "Credit freezing" makes ID theft preventable
- Do you know your credit score?
