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Sally McDonald
November 06, 2025

💵 Today’s Top Stories
Costco

A souped-up glue gun, whimsical dog toys and a Peanuts women’s Christmas sweater are among the gems we found at Costco this month. Read more.

Text message scam alert

SIM card swapping can give your personal and financial information to scammers in an instant. Luckily, these steps can help prevent it from happening to you. Read more.

home insurance

The cost of homeowners insurance in Florida grabs headlines. But even before a year without hurricanes hitting, it wasn’t the most expensive state. Who pays more? And how do you save on yours? Read more.

Car odometer vehicle

This Japanese brand and its luxury counterpart produces the top nine models to claim the title of most likely to last a quarter million miles. Read more.

phone credit card

One of the major cell phone companies just issued a new 2% cash back credit card that pays up to 5% on select purchases within its ecosystem. Read more.

💵 Today’s Top Savings Rates

Check out our updated list of Clark.com-approved high-yield savings accounts with the highest rates. Here are the top five APYs on our list as of November 6, 2025.

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💸 Is Paying With Cash Becoming Taboo?

Is cash “cringe?” Or is it still worth holding in your wallet and using to pay?

It depends on who you ask – and maybe when you were born.

More than half of Gen Z (born from 1997 to 2012) “are using physical cash as a last resort when paying” and nearly one-third “believe that people who pay with cash are either out of touch or cringe.”

However, more than half of the same generation acknowledges they’ll spend more without physical cash in hand.

Clark says you should keep $400 cash on hand in case of emergency. And says to avoid spending via debit card.

Beyond that, it’s a “know thyself” situation. If you manage credit well and can get cash back, use your credit card. If you’re poor with credit or are saving on a transaction fee paying in cash, well, being “cringe” in the eyes of the youth isn’t the worst thing.

📊 Stat of the Day

💰️ $382 billion: The amount of cash that Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway held after Q3. That’s more than the market cap of Home Depot, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Disney, among others. Buffett will retire at the end of 2025.

💰️ Deal Alert: Today’s Top Deals
Target store
Italy
🎙️ Podcast

If your internet bill is going up, Clark says that's your invitation to bolt! He dives into the growing world of wireless home internet competition, highlighting Mint Mobile's new service, which is offering a disruptive price of $30 to $40 a month. Most importantly, he advises you to use this new competition as a powerful negotiating lever to force your current cable or phone provider to drop your own rate. Also, Clark issues a critical scam warning, detailing how criminal rings are morphing their tactics and stealing billions. Clark breaks down the highly credible new ploys and reminds us that all of these scams operate on the same playbook.

☎️ Need Money Help?

The Team Clark Consumer Action Center is a free helpline that can help you navigate your money questions. Call 636-492-5275. Visit clark.com/cac for more information.

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