For travelers and vacationers, renting a place for a short-term stay has always been an attractive alternative to staying in a hotel. But another alternative is gaining traction among money-conscious visitors: home swapping, or home exchange; a growing trend that...
The future of real estate may not be on land at all. That’s the hope of the Seasteading Institute’s Floating City Project: an effort to create a floating city that it hopes will pioneer a new direction for human societies around the world. As the movement toward...
The notion of “value investing” was first made popular by Ben Graham, and later by Warren Buffett. At its core, value investing is about knowing the fundamentals or “intrinsic value” of an asset. What this ultimately means, is that investors should seek to learn...
The Bitcoin’s march toward legitimacy took another step forward this week, as the digital currency was accepted as legal tender to buy a Tesla – a fitting arrangement for the purchase of the new electronic car. But even as Lamborghini Newport Beach happily announced...
It’s easy to complain about the government. More rare, however, is the ability to conceive a plan of how to implement an alternative and then actually do it. That’s where the Seasteading Institute comes into play. This non-profit organization exists for the purpose of...
A solid credit score is a must-have for investors, and. as Jason Hartman says, it’s essential to protect that score like the treasure that it is. One way to do that is to cancel those unused credit cards taking up space in your wallet, right? Think again, say...
What’s in a name? asked William Shakespeare. Plenty –when it comes to the loosely defined arena of financial investing, where virtually anyone can claim a title. And as a recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reveals, the confusing array of titles...
We just paid a visit to Healthcare.gov and, surprisingly, were able to browse through the much-maligned website with relative ease. There was one section in particular that caught our interest, and it described the procedures behind the “individual responsibility...
Are Bitcoins for real? Just ask UK techie James Howells, who recently tossed out a long forgotten computer hard drive, only to realize – far too late – that the device contained $7.5 million worth of Bitcoins, the digital currency that’s been making headlines as it...
For the handful of people who have earned all the money they ever want to in their life, feel free to tune out the rest of this post. For the other 99.9% of the population still in the throes of dreaming and scheming about ways to create true financial independence,...
