What we do at Empowered Investor is not brain surgery. There’s nothing in here the average investor with an average head on their shoulders can’t comprehend. The real trick, and the part where most people fail miserably, is to recognize what an amazing opportunity...
Is money, as we have always known it, going out of style? Just maybe. The federal government continues to print it like we’re all playing a big game of monopoly. It no longer has any real asset underpinning it, like gold. The only reason it’s still worth anything at...
Let’s wander a bit off the beaten path of real estate investing today and ponder the topic of political lies. Not to belabor any recently successful presidential campaigns, but what exactly goes on in the mind of a politician as he swears to the sky above day after...
We couldn’t help but notice the continuing bray of gurus who point out that the smart money is shorting stocks like crazy. Hate to sound like a broken record, but shorting stocks would only qualify as smart if you were to assume that Wall Street plays a fair game and...
Remember back in the good old days (late 2008) when gas prices were in full retreat and you could buy a gallon of the stuff at your favorite convenience store without following a fill-up with a handful of Tums chaser? The nation was high on hope, short on expertise,...
One of the factors that we believe makes real estate a superior investment to stocks is you can use your hard-earned money as leverage to control an asset worth much, much more than the amount of money you actually have. We call this the down payment and, these days,...
There’s no crime in ignorance. All of us came into real estate in that same mental state. The difference between the ones who eventually succeed in building life-changing wealth and the ones who flame out on the runway is simple. Education. We think risk is directly...
You can’t blame them. People who have been recently creamed in the stock market to the tune of $7 trillion are desperately looking for some way to recoup their nest egg. Understandably, many are leery about re-entering stocks when their scorched pants are still...
The cacophony of advice about where to put your money coming at you from all sides can sometimes be deafening. We know that. That’s why we try to be the Joe Friday of investing. Remember the character from Dragnet? “Just the facts, ma’am.” At Empowered Investor, we’re...
There was a major change to US economic policy relating to the dollar in 1971 under President Nixon. Actually, the trouble began in 1970, as the Vietnam war continued to grind along and the US was running a trade deficit for the first time that century. The idea that...
