One of the primary purposes of easy money (“quantitative easing” or QE) is to inflate asset prices, bloat balance sheets, and create a wealth effect. The formula is simple. Print gobs of money, buy bonds to drop interest rates, and flood the markets with liquidity. Corporations borrow cheap money to buyback stocks … pushing stock […]
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There’s lots of news affecting real estate investors…and most of it doesn’t have anything to do with real estate. In this episode, we read between the headlines to what’s in the news that real estate investors should be paying attention to. In the broadcast newsbooth for this informative edition of Clues in the News: Your
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The Real Estate Guys™ just returned from the New Orleans Investment Conference where we (and some of our listeners) had a chance to hear from the Maestro himself, Dr. Alan Greenspan. If you’re a long time follower of The Real Estate Guys™ radio show and blog, you know we pay close attention to the Federal Reserve
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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
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