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

I want you to learn ideas to me so that you can save more and spend less and don't

let anyone ever rip you off.

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Coming up in just a few minutes.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is under direct assault but there's still things

that they are doing that are there to aid you as a consumer.

I want to make sure you know where when you're having a problem and when you can turn

to them and how you do it to get help when you're having a problem with a bank or a credit

card company or student loan company or something like that.

And coming up later, new report out from Consumer Reports on the used vehicles and 80%

of vehicle purchases are for used vehicles.

The used vehicles that have proven to be the most reliable for you to look at buying.

Hent for you.

The list of recommended to buy used vehicles is much shorter than the list of used vehicles

to avoid.

We are still picking up pieces that will actually be there for years from the massive Equifax

data breach that now the newest numbers that somewhere around 147 to 148 million Americans

were affected with their personal information in the hands of crooks.

And that's why there's been such an uptick apparently.

Even problems with identity theft since the Equifax hack of last year.

Well the most effective thing you can do, it doesn't solve everything but it does a lot

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