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HARP: An Option for Investors Too

HARP: An Option for Investors Too

As the dust settles after November's Presidential election, the housing industry is keeping a close eye on which housing-related policies and programs from President Barack Obama’s first term will survive, and in what form. One holdover is HARP (Home Affordable...

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Presidential Politics and Housing Trends

Presidential Politics and Housing Trends

Regardless of their political leanings, real estate professionals and investors small and large watched this year’s presidential election unfold with an eye to its effects on the US real estate market. Although housing wasn’t a particularly hot topic during the...

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The Foreclosure Pipeline: Is It Still Open?

The Foreclosure Pipeline: Is It Still Open?

Among the benchmarks of a recovery in the US housing market since 2011 is the “foreclosure pipeline” – the number of foreclosed homes reaching the market during a particular period. Although massive amounts of foreclosures were processed during the housing crash of...

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Housing Recovery Can’t Find Escape Velocity

Housing Recovery Can’t Find Escape Velocity

Scattered signs of a housing recovery are beginning to show themselves across the fruited plain still shell-shocked by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Housing starts in October showed the most encouraging signs of life since 2008 with a 3.6...

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Buy Real Estate at 80% Discount

Buy Real Estate at 80% Discount

With most tasks we’re confronted with in life, there’s a right way to do it and a wrong way; or at least a better, smarter, more profitable way. Real estate investing is no different. While it’s certainly no crime to buy a piece of property with all cash and wait for...

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No Jobs, No Recovery

No Jobs, No Recovery

The recurrent news stories about the current economic "recovery" have begun to wear on many people. What the population at large is beginning to wonder about is jobs. Specifically, why the employment situation is still so difficult in a "growing" and "recovering"...

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Step Into the Fray

Step Into the Fray

Recent news about the US debt downgrade, the subsequent market turmoil, flow of capital into treasuries, and commitments by the Federal Reserve to more easy money are creating an unprecedented opportunity for income property investments. The stock market is becoming...

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“Big Kid” Returns Go To Direct Investors

“Big Kid” Returns Go To Direct Investors

(Contributor: tungphoto) When most people think about investments, their minds immediately drift to vehicles such as mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, REIT’s, and other methods of pooled investments that are either managed or pegged against an index. Many noted...

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Success is Just an Intelligent Plan Away

Success is Just an Intelligent Plan Away

One of the most critical things for any person to do in their personal, professional, or financial life is to make intelligent plans. When we simply ‘wing it’ for an extended period of time, it results in our missing opportunities because we weren’t prepared. It is...

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Hurrican Sandy’s Impact on the Housing Market

Hurrican Sandy’s Impact on the Housing Market

Call it a superstorm, a perfect storm, or Frankenstorm, Hurricane Sandy plowed its way up the Eastern Seaboard on the last weekend in October, colliding with other weather systems to wreak havoc on the people and infrastructures of several states. As business and home...

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1978: Central Bank Digital Currency, Surveillance State, Open Ai, Inflation Induced Debt Destruction, Clive Thompson

Again, Jason is sounding the alarm regarding the central bank digital currency that is coming in our already prevalent surveillance state. And when this finally happens, it is ‘checkmate’ for the human race! 

And talking with Jason about the impending RESET and the implications of this massive shift in our society is Clive Thompson. He is a retired Managing Director at Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA at UBP – Union Bancaire Privée.

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