12.23.19 Google Flights to save on travel; Don't carry these things in your wallet

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Google has the most sophisticated search tool for finding travel bargains because they acquired a key industry database. That combined with Google's data capabilities yields up-to-the-second info. They've added a feature allowing you to shop flights to adjacent airports while shopping flights between selected airports. Google.com/flights is able to shop all fares for months at a time for selected and neighboring airports. You can pull up a calendar and see day by day, month by month the cheapest fares. Let's go back a decade + and talk analog financial crime - stolen wallets. It still happens. NEVER NEVER NOT EVER carry a checkbook unless you're on your way to a house closing. If your checks are stolen and a criminal writes checks as if they're you, when those checks pass - YOU get arrested for the bad check. You end up with a record, and having to hire a defense attorney. You have to prove innocence. It's an abuse the way the law works here. 2. Purge all the cards you really don't need. Limit the damage by scaling down your wallet. NEVER carry your social security card around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you being empowered with
0:10.3	knowledge so you can keep more of what you make.
0:14.0	Coming up later, there's always people out there trying to separate you from what you've
0:18.5	made.
0:19.5	I'm going to give you some simple steps for you to push them away and out of your life
0:25.4	as best you can.
0:27.5	And our main website, Clark.com, which we update every single day with new information
0:34.3	for you about ways to do various things in your life smarter, cheaper, better, so that
0:40.6	you can live the life you want to with financial independence.
0:45.8	So I love travel and I love to save money on airfare.
0:53.9	But where do you go?
0:54.9	What do you do?
0:56.7	Well, as so many other things, the answer starts with Google.
1:01.9	No, Google's big and powerful in so many places in our lives.
1:06.9	But Google has the most sophisticated search tool to find bargains and travel.
1:13.9	And now has added a feature that you can see all this at Google.com slash flights.
1:20.3	And what I should say, I should step back a second, Google has the most sophisticated tools
1:27.1	to search for airfare because they bought a key industry database.
1:34.1	And so that's why when you use Google.com slash flights, the results are so quick.
1:39.3	And then they laid over their big data capabilities on top of the available database of airline
1:47.7	seats in order to be able to give you phenomenal up to the second sophisticated information,
1:53.7	including a new capability where you can have Google shop flights departing from your own
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