Real estate fraud takes many forms and targets all areas of the housing market, with an impact on investors, homeowners and renters all over the country. Because these schemes can be hard to spot, we’ll wrap up this week’s intermittent series on housing related fraud...
Real state scams often prey on the desperate, masquerading as legitimate companies working in various areas of the housing industry. Along with schemes such as the Nigerian money transfer, fake ownership and other obvious rip-offs, scammers are taking aim at investors...
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...
The nation’s big banks are trying to clean up their image, and Bank of America is leading the way. With a brand new ad campaign aimed at r3estoring trust and winning the hearts of new customers, BofA aims to shed the baggage of its dirty past and eradicate consumers’...
All across the US, bullets are vanishing from store shelves. Although the popularity of guns and gun ownership continues to rise in the wake of fears about gun control. The population of hunters, target shooters and owners of guns for personal protection hasn’t risen...
If the Nigerian money transfer scheme weren’t enough, a variety of other real estate scams continue to circulate, trapping not just sellers, but also buyers and renters, too. The aftermath of the housing collapse created conditions ripe for scamming, as foreclosures...
At JasonHartman.com, we have been warning about inflation for quite a while. For a long time, the Consumer Price Index has shown what appear to be very benign levels of price increases, leading some to believe that the monetary expansion required to finance profligate...
When a ship is headed for a storm, the captain will promptly announce “All Hands on Deck” to tell the crew that maximum effort is necessary to survive. The global financial storm is culminating into a situation that will require each of us to call the entirety of our...
The Nigerian Internet scheme is so well known, it’s become a joke. But now, variations of that scam are targeting the housing market, snagging unwary home sellers and buyers with a mix of pathos and pressure on marketplace sites like Craigslist and eBay. Fraud...
Many stock market investors have become familiar with the work of Harry Markowitz in creating a methodology known as “Portfolio Theory” for managing equity investments. The fundamental premise of portfolio theory is to maximize the rate of return for a given level of...
