Analysts and authors, myself included, have been warning about the collapse of the dollar as the global reserve currency for years. I described this prospect in my first book …
We all know shift happens…and it can be messy. But rather than complain about it, nimble and resourceful investors find new markets, strategies and product types to keep their portfolio chugging down the track. Of course, for professional fund managers this is nothing new. But for most day-to-day nose-to-the-grindstone real estate investors, the idea of …
5/17/15: Economic Shifts – Real Estate Diversification and Emerging Markets Read More »
Think about the role money has in your daily life… As real estate investors, we buy, rent, sell and refinance…all to acquire dollars…which is currently the money de jour. And because, since 1944 the dollar has served as the world’s reserve currency, the health of the dollar affects virtually everyone…everywhere. Lately, we’ve seen a lot of headlines …
03/22/15: The Death of Money – A Conversation with Jim Rickards Read More »
Money is such an interesting topic. It really is the lifeblood of human society. It’s the repository of human production and the means by which value is exchanged. Money does in fact make the world go ’round. For real estate investors, and really any other investor, business owner or laborer, productivity, cash flows and net …
7/13/14: The Future of Money – Currency, Metals and Crypto-Currency Read More »
The dollar has been on a steady decline since Nixon took it off the gold standard in 1971. Since then, the dollar has lost a staggering 80% of its purchasing power. Ouch. The flip side of a falling dollar is that it takes more of them to buy anything that’s real. That’s why that gallon …
10/20/13: Real Asset Investing – Using Hard Assets to Hedge Against a Falling Dollar Read More »