There’s a lot of change on the horizon as we sail into the new year. To help us process it all, we dialed up some of the biggest brains we know to share their insights, perspectives, and predictions. In part one of our two-part Predictions Panel, we’ll have these smart guests take a look into […]
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Halloween may be yesterday’s news, but we’ve collected a killer bunch of horror stories that will give you a good spook … no matter what time of year it is. In this annual segment, we’ll share seven tales of real estate investing gone horribly wrong … and the lessons investors took away from their nightmarish
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The key to successful real estate investing is your understanding of financing and lending. You MUST be able to leverage the money you own (or borrow) so you can put your capital to work. There’s a lot of money churning around out there. Many different sources provide loans. The government and big banks are two
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Financial planning 101 says create equity first, then invest it for cash flow later. Of course, real estate investors know cash-flow creates equity … but that’s a different discussion. With paper assets, the basic formula is to buy stocks young to grow equity, then sell them later to buy bonds in retirement that will produce
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Periodically, we like to bring you stories of real-life investors … investors who’ve been in your shoes and made it up rocky paths to emerge better than they started! The investors on our show today all fell into real estate investing in different ways, but one thing brings them together … they all attended our
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Although real estate investors deal with real assets and not volatile holdings, we think it’s crucial to understand the larger economic picture. We’ve been attending Freedom Fest since the 2008 financial crisis. Conventions like Freedom Fest bring together leaders of all types and set the stage for respectful dialogue between smart people with varying opinions.
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In one of his many excellent commentaries, our good friend and multi-time Investor Summit at Sea™ faculty member Simon Black points out the last time this happened the market crashed. The market he’s referring to is the stock market … and the event is stock brokerage firm Charles Schwab opening new accounts at the highest pace in 17
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We LOVE sharing success stories when we come across them … and want these success stories to be relatable. That’s why we’ve created an all-new podcast feature: Real Life Lessons. In every edition, we’ll share stories of successful investors who started out just like you. These investors took the life-changing steps of getting educated and
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They say the U.S. “recovery” began in June 2009. And though it’s been one of the weakest recoveries in history, it’s also been one of the longest. Today, we have record high stock prices and record high debt. (Coincidence? Perhaps.) Common sense alone says the probability of a stock market correction and economic recession are
What every investor MUST have to thrive in a downturn … Read More »
If you earn, save, borrow, invest, or denominate wealth in dollars, this CNBC headline might concern you: Why Being Long the Dollar is “Very Very Dangerous Right Now” Comments from readers showed people were confused … “Why being long the US dollar is ‘very very dangerous’ right now” … what the hell does that mean?”
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