President Trump has put his tax plan on the table for the world to see. The big question is … what does it REALLY mean? But rather than speculate on the future possibilities, let’s take a look at the last time big-time tax reform went from rhetoric to reality. Way back in 1986, then-President Ronald […]
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The world is full of alarming headlines which should concern any alert investor: Pension Crisis Too Big for Markets to Ignore The Federal Reserve Could Reduce Its Monstrous Balance Sheet Soon – That Should Terrify Everyone The retail apocalypse has officially descended on America We could have pulled up more, but you get the idea.
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No, we aren’t advocating becoming the next Bernie Madoff. We just read Robert Kiyosaki’s article on Yahoo Finance called The Biggest Scam Ever. It’s about 401k plans and he’s commenting on the cover story Time Magazine recently published on the subject. Time says their sources estimate that 44 percent of Americans (a chunk of
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If you’re left brained (logical), we probably already lost you at the headline. But this isn’t a blog on positive thinking (not that we have anything against that). We’re talking about negative equity and how it gets measured. More importantly, where are the opportunities? Just before Thanksgiving, the Wall Street Journal ran a headline that
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The AP headline this morning says “Stock Market Slumps as Home Construction Slows”. Oh no! We can hear the pitter patter of mutual fund investors’ feet running to their computers to check the damage to their 401k. Funny, but when we look at our computer, we see interest rates on 30 year fixed mortgages back
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Sorry – not a particularly catchy title for this post – but it’s still an important concept that merits reinforcement. In Equity Happens, we talk about how real estate investing is a business of fundamentals. When you master the fundamentals, then you master the business. In this case, the fundamental we’re talking about is one’s
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