The nation’s three biggest banks, already poster children for a variety of fraudulent practices, have now added insurance fraud to the list of offenses that keep bringing them to federal court. This time, the problem had to do with “force-placed” homeowner insurance...
Invest in your future: buy insurance! That’s what the nation’s major insurance companies tell worried consumers every day. Those monthly premiums, they say, represent an investment for the future, protecting valuable assets like homes, cars – and even lives – against...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Creating Wealth with Jason Hartman! During this program, Jason is going to tell you some really exciting things that you probably haven’t thought of before and a new slant on investing. Fresh new approaches to America’s best investment that...
Can the Dogecoin give the Bitcoin a run for its (pun intended) money? Although it’s only been around for a little over two months, the newly created digital money has already made headlines at Sochi’s Winter Olympics, where a devoted Reddit group used it to raise...
The Olympic Winter Games are on in Sochi, and the best athletes the world over are bringing their best to the competition. And though it may seem that building wealth through income property investing doesn’t have much to do with winning the luge or the race,...
Bitcoin’s identity crisis continues, as the upstart digital currency makes more inroads into traditional commerce the world over, triggering government bans and prompting financial experts to question whether Bitcoin will behave like a regular currency capable of...
JASON HARTMAN: Welcome to the Creating Wealth show. This is your host, Jason Hartman and this is episode number 331. Thank you so much for joining us today. Our guest today will be Meredith Whitney. You’ve probably heard of her. She is the one that I mentioned a...
When considering the value of an asset, what most people consider is the nominal value or “price” of the asset. When prices are going up, people get excited, and greedy. Rational analysis quickly gives way to fanciful visions of easy wealth. Conversely, when prices...
More dirty laundry continues to air in the mortgage lending industry as US Department of Justice investigations keep leading to more charges of bad loan practices against the nation’s biggest banks. The latest round has JP Morgan Chase paying $614 million for...
By many benchmarks, the housing market’s recovery continues, with rising home prices, more new construction and even a safer lending environment for mortgage applicants. But casting a long shadow over all these rosier indicators is the vast and stagnant foreclosure...
