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Clark Biweekly 9 29 25
Sally McDonald
September 29, 2025
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💵 Today’s Top Stories
 | A new law is spiking 2026 health insurance prices. Closely analyze your ’26 options if you’re an employee. Beware of scams and 60% price increases if you’re an individual. Read more. |
 | Here are the airports you should and shouldn’t target when you’re headed outside of the United States based on new Going deals data. Read more. |
 | After breaking up with Capital One, Walmart just rolled out a card that offers up to 5% cash back in its stores. But there’s a catch. How does Team Clark evaluate the new card? Read more. |
 | Clark has gotten questions about this for decades. If you’re considering a reverse mortgage to make ends meet, read this first. Read more. |
 | This budgeting app helps identify subscriptions you’re paying for and not using. It can also help you negotiate bills. How does it compare to other paid options with the same services? Read more. |
🏠️ Today’s Current Mortgage Rates
According to Freddie Mac, 30-year mortgage rates are 6.30% and 15-year rates are 5.49% as of September 25, 2025. The following chart shows the 30-year mortgage rate trend over the last year.
🪙 Metal Detectors Unearth Wild Treasure
Metal detecting can be a fun hobby. And it’s always interesting seeing someone with the telltale equipment hovering over the sand at the beach.
But one such group in Europe recently uncovered a fortune.
Looking for German rockets from World War II in Poland, they instead uncovered “pots filled with coins and hundreds of grams of gold.”
The clay pots were stuffed with medieval coins, silver bars and rare ornaments. The very first pot they found on June 7 contained 631 artifacts.
They even uncovered a gold necklace (222 grams of pure gold) from the Roman period that’s possibly 1,800 years old.
Want to find some valuables of your own?
Maybe you can follow their path and get incredibly lucky with an ancient archaeological find. Or maybe you can get a more modest haul the modern way, by figuring out you have unclaimed money in your name.
If that seems rare, consider that between one in seven and one in 10 Americans have unclaimed money, depending on which source you believe.
📊 Stat of the Day
🏡 20.5%: New home sales increased in August vs. July. New home sales also beat August 2024 by 15.4% and reached the highest level since January 2022.
💰️ Deal Alert: Today’s Top Deals
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🎙️ Podcast
It’s time for "Clark Stinks!" Christa reads the latest "Clark Stinks!" submissions and Clark responds. Also, Amazon is making a big change to its Prime membership, and it could affect millions of families! Clark breaks down the recent news and what this new policy means for you and your family.
☎️ 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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