--- title: Kim Clark | TIME description: Kim Clark is a veteran financial journalist who's covered everything from the collapse of Soviet Communism to the latest debates over stock valuations. Recently, she's devoted a lot of time to researching college costs—why they're so high, and how students can find better deals. In her spare time, she tends a big organic garden, where she has developed a deep and abiding hatred of invasive stinkbugs. canonical: https://time.com/author/kim-clark/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/kim-clark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Kim Clark  ## Kim Clark Kim Clark is a veteran financial journalist who's covered everything from the collapse of Soviet Communism to the latest debates over stock valuations. Recently, she's devoted a lot of time to researching college costs—why they're so high, and how students can find better deals. In her spare time, she tends a big organic garden, where she has developed a deep and abiding hatred of invasive stinkbugs.  ## Kim Clark Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kim-clark/","name":"Kim Clark"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kim-clark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kim-clark/"},"name":"Kim Clark","jobTitle":null,"description":"Kim Clark is a veteran financial journalist who's covered everything from the collapse of Soviet Communism to the latest debates over stock valuations. Recently, she's devoted a lot of time to researching college costs—why they're so high, and how students can find better deals. In her spare time, she tends a big organic garden, where she has developed a deep and abiding hatred of invasive stinkbugs.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt518be98e7fe4590e/69869172cd684872da094e30/14-05-21_bio_author_clark.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/kim-clark/","sameAs":["https://x.com/Money_College"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```