It's great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you and your wallet.

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you make.

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coming up in a few minutes.

I've got instead of a Clark rage, I have a Sizzling Deal and later yet I'm going to talk about

what's going on with personal care products, products you buy for your home, paper goods,

the prices are in a classic riddle going up and down at the same time.

I'm going to tell you how to get the down and avoid the up later.

I want to talk right now about something that is really frustrating to me.

Our political leaders in Washington call them leaders as a joke.

They're so out of touch with ordinary everyday Americans.

And there's no better example of that than we had the worst data breach in the history

of the modern era last year with Equifax.

The personal information, deep personal information of nearly two thirds of American adults with

credit files were exposed.

And I'm talking deep.

And so a criminal with the information is in a position to create any kind of havoc by

using your identity they wish not right now, not next week, not next month, not next year

for the rest of your life.

Now you would think when something this egregious has happened because of Equifax's negligence,

gross negligence that our representatives, that's right, it's called the US House of Representatives,

would be scrambling to do something about providing a layer of protection for you and me.

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