It’s probably an understatement to say the financial news is conflicting and confusing at best … and perhaps distracting and misleading at worst. To make matters worse, mainstream financial media and most alternative media don’t look at events from the perspective of Main Street real estate investors. But we do. So let’s take a look […]
Clues in the news are pointing south … Read More »
Many amateur investors … both Wall Street and Main Street … tend to “wing it” … investing on tips, hunches, intuition, and “feel”. And in real estate, you can add “insider information”. Not that anyone does that on Wall Street. Nah. Meanwhile, pros and serious amateurs pay attention to data, analysis, and the opinions of
The economy’s baaack … or is it? Read More »
Last time, we explored the growling evidence that in spite of a tame Consumer Price Index (CPI), real-world inflation is becoming “a thing.” This is notable because it’s happening at a time when “velocity” … how fast money (or more accurately, “currency”) circulates … is slow due to lockdowns their fall out. In Part 2,
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We REALLY tried to get this into one article, but it’s just too big … so this is Part 1 of 2 … and should only take about 4 minutes to read. Click here for Part 2 … The Story Underneath the Story … One short year ago the world was just starting to hear
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The David versus Goliath saga of Robinhood day traders has alerted Main Street that Wall Street is a rigged game … in favor of club members. And it seems Main Streeters aren’t in the club. But while the GameStop run was fun to watch, the silver spectacle is MUCH more interesting for reasons we’ll explain momentarily. Most real
The REAL lesson from the short-lived attack on silver … Read More »
It’s been a long, winding, and somewhat treacherous road. But here we are at the dawn of the next Presidential administration of the United States. It’s time to put away the popcorn and break out the champagne … or valium … depending on your feelings about the most controversial election in modern times. But as we
The Biden era begins … Read More »
In 1995, a New Zealand one-hit-wonder musical group called OMC released their chart-topping song How Bizarre. When you think about everything going on in the world today … “bizarre” seems to be an apt description. Here’s a verse you might almost believe had prophetic hidden meaning when written over a quarter-century ago … “Ringmaster steps out and
Making moves in a bizarre world … Read More »
In Gary Keller’s life-changing book, The One Thing, he brings into focus the importance of focusing on “the one thing.” Hence the catchy title. Although similar to Curly’s advice in City Slickers, Keller’s advice is a little more practical. Keller says “the one thing” is whatever you can do that makes everything else you need to do either easier or unnecessary.
Invest wiser, not smarter … Read More »
Judging by the volume of commentary from a parade of pundits on every major financial news outlet … .. you’d think stocks are the undisputed champ for wealth building. Meanwhile, real assets … things like real estate and gold … are largely ignored as boring relics for the unsophisticated and fearful. Then a pesky thing
The BEST performing asset classes of the last 20 years … Read More »
Perhaps more than any subset of American society, real estate investors have the strongest tie to the very first Thanksgiving. Depending on where and how you learned early American history, you may have only a cursory awareness of the Plymouth Plantation “experiment.” That’s where America’s Thanksgiving tradition came from. But the first Thanksgiving set the table
Thanksgiving and your private property rights … Read More »