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The Clark Howard Podcast

04.03.23 Greener Grass - Water Savings / INVESTING: Time IN The Market- Not Market Timing

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For many sports events, fields are actually spray painted to make them look beautiful, which has led to lawn painting, especially where water is restricted and costly. How some homeowners, including Clark - are saving water by altering their lawns. Also, It’s not uncommon for people to pull their investments out of the market when it trends downward. Right now with economic uncertainty, people are rotating out of stocks in favor of savings, planning to return to the market when it’s “safe”. What are they missing? Plenty. How Clark handles investing. Lawns & Water Savings: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Steady Investing: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show Do Your Neighbors Paint Their Lawns Green? Increasingly, Yes FuelEconomy.gov Welcome to Bluebird Individual Investors Pile Into Cash, Chasing Higher Returns - The Wall Street Journal. NYTimes.com: A Question About Your Money: Has Anything Truly Changed This Week? [The Washington Post] Four money rules when financial news is making you nervous Should You Sell or Stay Put in the Stock Market? Dollar Cost Averaging Makes You a Fortune Over Time How To Save and Invest the Clark Howard Way How to Freeze Your Child's Credit A Simple Way To Help Your Kid Build Credit Should You Make Your Child an Authorized User on Your Credit Card? Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show

0:07.7

Aramish.

0:08.7

It's to serve you and empower you to make better financial decisions in your life.

0:14.0

Today, you know what I'm saying?

0:16.2

The grass is always greener on the other side of the street.

0:19.9

Well, some people are making their grass a whole lot greener.

0:25.0

I'm going to tell you how and why.

0:27.7

Why this is something going on in America.

0:29.6

I want to tell you what I did in my own life.

0:32.6

Also, if you've been hearing friends say they're not going to put their money in the stock market

0:38.4

until it feels safe to do so.

0:42.2

They pulled money out and they're on the sidelines.

0:45.6

Well, that is a common occurrence when people get nervous, when they get anxious.

0:51.0

I'm going to tell you why I am not a believer in market timing and investments

0:57.8

and the way I handle uncertain or scary times.

1:03.6

So during the Super Bowl, because football is my life, I was quite distressed

1:12.2

at how the NFL messed up the field.

1:15.9

And players were slipping and sliding like they were playing ice hockey instead of football.

1:22.1

It was because the NFL wanted the field to look absolutely perfect on television.

1:28.4

And they hurt the quality of the game by having made the field look so perfect.

1:35.5

It wasn't for the players.

1:36.7

And the players after the game kept talking about how they kept trying different cleats

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