In case you missed it, silver exploded nearly five percent higher … in a single day … which takes its impressive year-to-date gain to nearly twenty percent. Of course, we’re not into using precious metals as trading vehicles to churn out short-term dollar-denominated capital gains. We think real investing is about acquiring streams of passive […]
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Public demand for deliverable physical precious metals is more furious than it was in 2009! With no counterparty risk, gold and silver are one of the few asset classes that hold their purchasing power in times of uncertainty. Get started in the physical precious metals arena with this exclusive guide. Learn more now!
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In our latest episode, we’re chasing shiny objects. Gold, silver, palladium, and platinum, to be specific. Now, you might be wondering how precious metals investing is relevant to you as a real estate investor. But guess what? When people want somewhere to hide equity, and don’t want to put money into stocks and bonds, they
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Robert Kiyosaki says, “Savers are losers”. Does this mean you should consume more than you produce, or that saving is bad? Of course not. There are multiple meanings to the Savers are Losers concept. In addition to drawing a distinction between working for money (saving) versus having money work for you (investing), there’s the problem
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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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The real estate we love to invest in floats in an economic sea teeming with other financial and political life forms. And each of these denizens of the dollar (after all, the greenback is the world’s reserve currency…at least for now), have an impact on the overall financial ecology. There are symbiotic relationships, predators and
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Whew. Here we are at our fourth and final installment of the August and the Economy series. How are you holding up? Our brains are swollen. But, to keep the rally going, we’ve called on some very smart and outspoken money managers. As we’ve said before (and will say again), too many real estate investors
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This is the fifth and final part of our five part series on the “great debt ceiling debate” written as an accompaniment to our radio show broadcast and podcast, “Raising the Roof – How the Great Debt Ceiling Debate Impacts You”. You can download the episode on iTunes or find it on our Listen page.
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