Q: Two weeks ago I refinanced my house. The title company gave me a CD with all the signed documents. Two days ago I looked at it for the first time and discovered the disc did not contain my documents but those of another couple who closed on the same day. I saw their full [...]
Earlier this month, the U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce released new data regarding construction spending during the month of July 2011. As is the case with the majority of housing and construction data that we've encountered in recent years, the picture is mixed. Construction spending in July 2011 stood at a robust [...]
September 11 Remembrances on the Ilyce Glink Show September 11, 2011: It was an emotional and reflective day on this special one-hour edition of the Ilyce Glink Show. Ten years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and a crashed airliner in Pennsylvania, most of us can [...]
It's September 11, ten years after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Flight 93, in a field in Pennsylvania. Ten years to remember and rebuild. Ten years to try and forget. We only had an hour on the show today because of our special 9/11 programming on WSB, but I wanted to [...]
Q: Can you please help me. I am 32 years old and earn $63,000 a year and invest 8 percent of my salary into my company’s 401(k) plan. I have $90,000 in cash in the bank. I also have a $45,000 certificate of deposit earning 4.5 percent that matures in 2 years. I have a [...]
Q: I previously wrote to you and asked about investing in real estate. Since that time, I've moved from thinking about buying a single family house or two to actually purchasing and rehabbing about 45 units located in about 15 buildings. We chose multi-family as our desired real estate investing platform and are now unloading [...]
Q: I was recently divorced and bought a home. However, I have a rental property in an area which is quite depressed and where crime has increased. Homes in that area are now selling for about $15,000 and there are few renters moving in. I need to sell the rental property as it has now [...]
Last Friday, as we headed off to Labor Day picnics and other end of summer gatherings, it was ironic to consider the latest employment figures. On a holiday weekend devoted to the American worker, the Bureau of Labor Statistics under the U.S. Department of Labor announced zero job growth during the month of August 2011. [...]
Stock Markets in Europe, Asia Fall on U.S. Unemployment Report with Ilyce Glink on the Clark Howard Show July 7, 2011: It's clear the that unemployment crisis in the U.S. is having an impact on the rest of the world. The failure to create any jobs in August 2011 sent markets reeling across the globe. [...]
Here are the stories we talked about on the Clark Howard Show Labor Day, 2011 Stock markets in Europe and Asia fall on U.S. Unemployment Report. As we discussed yesterday on my radio show, the absolutely abysmal jobs report for August has shaken world economic markets. Stock markets around the world reflect a new pessimism [...]
