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The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos region ranked as the nation's second-fastest-growing metro area between 2010 and 2011, the last times these figures were available. 031413 census"/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clarkhoward/cars/worse-traffic-means-better-economy/nXRLF/">Ten worst cities for traffic</a></h4><p>Traffic is getting worse, but does your city rank in the Top 10? There are new stats from 24/7 Wall St./Inrix, the latter a leading-provider of traffic information, that lists the worst cities for traffic. The list is tallied based on morning and evening rush hour numbers: 10. Boston 9. ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013</li><li></li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/wrap-days-economic-news/nXgLP/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2012/08/30/18/ed/invest.JPG" title=" " alt=""/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/wrap-days-economic-news/nXgLP/">A wrap-up of the day's economic news</a></h4><p>There's a slew of economic news today that bodes well, though some question marks still remain on the horizon. Job growth in April was much higher than economists expected. We added 165,000 jobs. Unemployment is at 7.5% and has been on a pretty steady downward trend. Meanwhile, the oil industry ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013</li><li></li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-finance-credit/great-recession-taught-lasting-life-lessons/nXbPm/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2013/04/02/5b/5c/tmpQyAMbb-mdly-photo.jpg" title="DebtBeach_43_0" alt=" "/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-finance-credit/great-recession-taught-lasting-life-lessons/nXbPm/">Recession teaches lasting life lessons</a></h4><p>People with elderly relatives who lived through the Great Depression found it affected them their entire lives. I have a relative who lived through it and reused paper towels, plastic bags, plastic forks, spoons, and knives. Those people had a life altering event. Any possession they had was precious. Even ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, 2013</li><li></li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/air-traffic-controllers-returning-work/nXYpz/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2013/04/22/0f/76/AirportDelays1.jpg" title="airport furloughs" alt="Airports across the country and in Atlanta are concerned as the federal government forces air traffic controllers to take furloughs."/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/air-traffic-controllers-returning-work/nXYpz/">Air traffic controllers back to work</a></h4><p>Who says Washington can't get anything done? In what seemed like a nanosecond, the Senate – the world's most deliberative body --unanimously voted for funding to get air traffic controllers back on the job. In a separate move, the House passed by 361-41 a procedure to restore the funding. And ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Monday, April 29, 2013</li><li></li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/whats-going-economy/nXYrg/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2013/04/26/b7/e9/20130424_met_rentalhood_005.jpg" title="Will ‘Rental Nation’ plague your property?" alt="Keith Stewart (left) of North Palm Beach stands with his real estate agent Bob Graeve in front of a home on Elpine Way in Palm Beach Gardens. Stewart has been searching for a new home since December. (Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)"/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/whats-going-economy/nXYrg/">What's going on with the economy?</a></h4><p>The economy is growing overall, at a very slow and steady pace, yet at the same time a lot of people in their own lives are in worse shape than they were 4 years ago.  What’s going on? The short answer is that the recovery is completely unbalanced this time. ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Monday, April 29, 2013</li><li><span class="sprite iconComments"> Comments  (1) </span>   </li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/bitcoins-surge-value-could-be-sign-speculative-bub/nXHCd/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2013/04/06/34/2f/lhs_Mopay_04.JPG" title="Austin looks to get out in front of mobile payments wave" alt="Barista Rudi Miller at Houndstooth Coffee, which is one of several area retailers using the Square mobile payments technology. The shop uses a swivel mounted iPad for its point-of-sale device and swivels it over to customers so they can sign for credit card purchases."/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/bitcoins-surge-value-could-be-sign-speculative-bub/nXHCd/">Bitcoin's surge in value could be sign of speculative bubble</a></h4><p>Have you heard about Bitcoin? It's an alternative digital currency that represents a reaction to loss of faith in government and paper currency. Two years ago, a Bitcoin was worth less than $1. Today it's worth close to $150 per Bitcoin. Think about that! But the danger here is that ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2013</li><li></li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/clark-remembers-margaret-thatcher/nXGDy/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2013/04/08/6e/b0/Margaret-Thatcher-with-Ro-008.jpg" title="ThatcherReagan" alt=""/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/clark-remembers-margaret-thatcher/nXGDy/">Clark remembers Margaret Thatcher</a></h4><p>Today we mourn the passing of Margaret Thatcher. She was a personal hero of mine and I even named the family dog after her! Who was Margaret Thatcher? Often called the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher grew up poor in England. In the '70s, she became Prime Minister of an old, ...</p><ul class="footer"><li>6:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 9, 2013</li><li></li></ul></div><div class="cmListItem cmClearfix" id=""><div class="cmListImage cmPhotoBorderWhite cmLightBoxShadow"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/future-spending-corporate-america-will-drive-econo/nXCn7/"><img width="90" height="90" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040im_/http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/resize/90x90/img/photos/2012/08/31/27/55/0522_jp_sears_885482a.jpg" title="Job Focus: Climbing the ladder at Sears part of case manager's job satisfaction" alt="Stacey Dempsey, a Blue Ribbon Service Executive Case Manager at Sears Holdings Corporation, earned a promotion after six months."/></a></div><h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523051040/http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/economy-market-trends/future-spending-corporate-america-will-drive-econo/nXCn7/">Future spending by corporate America will drive economic growth</a></h4><p>Corporate America is sitting on nearly $1.5 trillion in cash that's on the sidelines and waiting to be deployed. Back in 2011, I first brought up this stat and at that time the cash on reserve was $1 trillion. 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