In the first installment of the Five-Year Plan series from Jason Hartman, we examined the dynamics of creating a five-year plan for investors at various points in their personal path. The dynamics of investment decisions differ greatly for new investors, growing...
The current world is a place where the context of reality in financial and political circles is constantly changing. Many people have built their financial futures around a framework of rules that they assume will continue throughout their retirement years. While we...
The US economy appears to be near the bottom of its post financial crisis contraction, but the prospects for fundamental future growth will be highly dependent on the growth and expansion of new innovations and new businesses. Current government policy is tilted in...
For all you stock investors out there, you’re probably used to thinking in terms of asset allocation when it comes to putting together your portfolio. Maybe you got some pointers from a broker or financial manager or maybe you conceived some sort of allocation...
It’s been 50 years since so few Americans have owned their own home. Let’s call this the “real” homeownership rate, defined as the percentage of US households who own a home and are not three months or more behind on mortgage payments. Is the suspense killing you yet?...
In the current election-year political climate, the expected rhetoric about “helping the poor” is being heard from almost every politician and political propagandist in the nation. Typically, this flavor of campaign speech involves a proposal to increase taxes on “The...
The unique characteristic of our market forecasts is that we go beyond the traditional method of forecasting appreciation only to profile the income property return on investment for each market area. There are three basic components to return on investment with...
The current world is one where we are constantly overloaded with information and choices. As each year passes, we are faced with an eternally increasing amount of information, and decisions that we are confronted with. Within this tangled web of connections and...
It’s not much of a secret that the US government is in the midst of big financial problems. The annual structural government deficit is well in excess of $1 Trillion dollars, with no end in sight. In addition to this, there are a growing number of people who are...
Many people have become painfully aware of the large and growing magnitude of the US national debt. It is a subject of great concern among many in the government, and the great multitude of people who are responsible for the tax burden that finances the government’s...
Today’s Flashback Friday is from episode 378 published last May 6, 2014.
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse , The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review.
Jason is in the Hot Seat today as Joe Brown of Heresy Financial asks him about his contrarian views on the housing market’s supposed impending crash. They also discuss single versus multifamily investments, identify the different facets and causes of the housing shortages across the America. Jason also shares a few slides from his Hartman Comparison Index (HCI) which shows that houses are not as expensive as one might think!
Today, Jason talks about the population, it’s demographics, its problems, and the effects it has with regards to rental housing opportunities of which you can definitely take advantage! He is also inviting to join the Empowered Mentoring via Zoom this week!
Todays Flashback Friday is from episode 376 published last April 24, 2014.
Chris Mayer is the Managing Editor of Agora Financial and Editor of the Capital and Crisis publication.
Mayer breaks down the unemployment numbers for us and whether it is actually getting better.
Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun: Japan. But due to demographic issues, Japan might not be a country for long. This is one of Jason’s morbid fascinations… countries in a demographic “cliff” like many countries in Europe, Russia and China!