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December 23, 2025

💵 Today’s Top Stories
Streaming TV

This FOX-owned streaming alternative won’t charge you a penny. Plus, it offers a nice selection of movies, TV shows and live TV. Read more.

Groceries

Find out which Texas-based grocery chain recently beat out Walmart, Aldi, Amazon, Costco and more for the No. 1 overall spot when it comes to low prices. Read more.

Credit card computer

Installment payments, rebranded in recent years as “buy now, pay later” (BNPL), have migrated to credit cards with this new product that offers no APR interest rates. Clark calls it a trick. Read more.

cash in wallet

“A lot of us are dying in the wallet from the $10 cut,” Clark says. Find out what the $10 cuts are and how to stop them from bleeding your wallet dry right now. Read more.

💵 Calculator of the Week: 401(k) Calculator With Match
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Make sure you're getting the most out of your employer match. This calculator shows you the true value of your 401(k) over your entire career.

🤖 Economic Shift: Data Centers Expected To Overtake Offices in 2026

As recently as 2023, we spent more than $70 billion annually on offices in the United States. That number declined to $45 billion this year.

At the same time, data center spending didn’t permanently break out above $10 billion until 2022 – and barely at that. That number ballooned to $41 billion this year.

With new headlines seemingly every week about capital expenditures on artificial intelligence, especially among the biggest tech companies, that number continues to scream up and to the right on the chart.

In fact, data center spending has grown 2,200% since 2014 and is set to overtake private office construction very soon, if it hasn’t already. (The latest data is based on annualized rates as of August.)

“As we shed excess office space (a shockwave still reverberating from the pandemic), and a growing number of power-guzzling, water-wanting data centers suck up every spare investment dollar and watt of electricity we have, we can make our easiest prediction yet: these lines are going to cross,” Sherwood wrote of data center vs. office spending.

Expect the infrastructure around A.I. – including the cost, physical space, construction and power needs – to be a major economic story of 2026.

📊 Stat of the Day

🦊 $1.14 billion: Rough box office take for Zootopia 2 as of last week, the second-highest grossing film of 2025 (Chinese animated sequel Ne Zha 2 is No. 1 at more than $2.2 billion). The Disney animated sequel is still in theaters.

💰️ Deal Alert: Today’s Top Deals
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🎙️ Podcast

Shopping online? Clark warns us about account takeover fraud, especially during the holiday season. Learn the critical rule you MUST follow to protect your wallet: why frictionless "one-click" payments are hazardous and why you should never store your credit or debit card information on retail sites, even if they pressure you to. Also, in excellent news for your budget, Clark dives into the surprising drop in gas prices — with some stations already under $2/gallon! He explains the global oversupply of oil and how the increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids is steadily reducing demand, setting the stage for what experts predict could be better prices that continue all the way through 2026.

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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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