John Ulzheimer is the President of consumer education at SmartCredit.com. Recently, there was a massive ten-year, $200M credit card fraud scheme, spanning 28 states, eight countries, with 18 people arrested. Ulzheimer breaks down how this happened. He also give us a...
We live in a litigation-happy world where lawsuits for grievances large and small clog the court calendars for years at a time. And one area ripe for complaints of all kinds is the landlord-tenant connection. Because investors making money from rental real estate so...
Housing prices are rising and so, to some extent, are interest rates, but it’s still a good time to start investing in property. The appeal o building wealth in real estate has hopeful investors looking for startup funds in some odd – and potentially risky – places....
Jason Hartman talks with Steve about his recent trip to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) including Necker Island owned by Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin group of companies. Jason and Steve discuss the gold crash, goldbugs, the silver markets, Harry Dent's...
Take a look at most any financial news today, and you’ll see the word “bubble” bouncing around. There’s the possibility of a student loan bubble, an interest rate bubble driven by the Fed’s bond buyuo, and so on. And of course where there’s a bubble, there’s also a...
New labor statistics are out for May 2013: 175,000 new jobs added. That’s good news for an employment picture that’s remained stagnant for some time. But some economists fear that this upturn is far from the numbers needed to jumpstart the economy, particularly since...
For some time we’ve been reporting in this space about the emerging crisis in student loan debt and its impact on various sectors of the economy – including housing. And because the student loan situation so closely parallels the events of the 2008 housing collapse,...
It’s no secret to anyone who’s been paying attention that the federal government is – how shall we phrase this nicely – in the midst of a power grab of near Hitlerian proportions. Solutions have been offered that cover the range of impeaching the president to seceding...
Join Jason Hartman as he talks with real estate investor and Winners Circle founder and CEO, Roger Salam about Roger’s journey from going bust in the dot com business to becoming a successful real estate investor until the housing bubble burst. Roger began this...
On paper it sounds good. Take out a “reverse mortgage” that draws on home equity to release cash for daily living and other expenditures. For many, particularly those in retirement and beyond, the plan offers financial relief while leaving the original investment...
