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The Clark Howard Podcast

8.19.20 Stock market reaches new highs; Flexible leases are more common

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The stock market has fully rebounded since its collapse in the Spring. Apple just hit a $2 trillion valuation while the S&P 500 hit a new milestone as well. Leases are traditionally one year long. But landlords are becoming more flexible due to the pandemic. So if you would prefer a shorter lease or even to rent month to month, you should ask for that now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Crypto doesn't sleep, so neither do we.

0:04.0

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0:11.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss.

0:22.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show, where it's all about you learning ways to save more and spend less.

0:36.0

And don't let anyone ever rip you off.

0:39.0

I think about over the years how I never, for a long, long time, ever took any kind of question about investing.

0:49.0

We're not an investing show.

0:51.0

But over the years, gradually, there's been more and more people asking me things about Roth IRAs, 401Ks, that sort of thing.

1:01.0

As people who were never focused on the stock market or investing have been forced to, as employer pensions have generally vanished.

1:13.0

So people who are not interested in it, particularly studied for it, are left having to understand enough to protect themselves building towards a financial future.

1:26.0

And so a time like right now can get extremely confusing.

1:32.0

So we're in the middle of a pandemic. We're in a recession.

1:36.0

We've been through a time period over the last five months where 50 million of our fellow Americans have faced at least some time in unemployment.

1:46.0

We continue today with tens of millions still in unemployment.

1:52.0

People whose job situation has been unstable where they are employed, unemployed, employed again, maybe facing another wave of unemployment.

2:03.0

How in the world in the midst of this could the stock market have cratered when the pandemic started?

2:12.0

And now is it all time record highs?

2:16.0

In addition, Apple became the first company, I guess ever in history anywhere on earth, to hit a value of $2 trillion.

2:29.0

I mean, that's unbelievable. That's $2,000 billion in value for one company.

2:36.0

Well, I want you to drill down on this and understand how it affects you and your wallet.

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