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WOULD YOU RISK IT ALL?   If you had $1 million dollars would you risk it all to “possibly” make $10 million?   If you had $10M would you risk it all for $100M?   If you had $100M would you risk it all for $1 billion?   Billionaires make their fortunes by taking BIG …

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There is a hot debate over whether government and central bank policies are inflationary or deflationary.   Quantitative Easing (Q.E.) is when the Federal Reserve conducts open market operations by buying assets, such as government bonds, direct from broker dealers and/or banks.   This sounds like “money printing” but it’s actually not, as the only …

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I recently commented on a Twitter post that proposed the question, if you had $100 million dollars what three assets would you invest in over the next 5-years. Here is a snapshot of how I responded:   There was a frightening majority of people who said “Bitcoin” for all three. I’m quite enthusiastic about crypto …

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LOW RATE “DOES NOT” MEAN YOU ARE GETTING THE BEST LOAN Yes, you read that correctly. You have been misled to think that low rate “always” means a better loan … however this is FALSE. Banks and amateur loan officers love to push low rate on homeowners. They try to convince you to pay “points”, …

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I’m often challenged on a core principle of real estate investing, which is that the buying a primary residence is NOT an investment. By no means am I the first person to argue that a home is a liability, not an asset … and I imagine those who have come before me have heard the …

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The Fix and Flip Danger Zone … TWO TYPES OF REAL ESTATE INVESTORS There are two primary types of real estate investors, the “Buy-and-Hold” investor and the “Fix-and-Flip” investor. It’s important to understand that buying a primary residence, a property that you live in as your “home”, with expectations that the property will be worth …

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The $8 Trillion Dollar Ticking Time Bomb What will trigger the next market crash? Jeffrey Gundlach, often referred to as the “Bond King”, shared his thoughts on this matter recently during a brief television interview. “The U.S. Deficit and the National Debt are totally out of control” Mr. Gundlach proclaimed. We should share his concern, …

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You pay income taxes NOT to fund public services, but in order to pay the interest payments on government debt controlled by a privately owned central bank.