The concept of government and central bank manipulation of stock markets and price of gold has been frequently discussed and documented by Jason and other financial experts on various podcasts. If you’re interested, check out the podcast directory on this website. One point to keep in mind is that real estate, as an investment, should be much harder for the powers-that-be to tinker with. Commodity prices like gold, silver, corn – these are easily manipulated up and down. Same with the electronic transactions of the stock market.
Need a 300+ day on the Dow to reassure jittery investors? Make a few phone calls and watch it happen. There are only 30 stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Get in with some early buying on a few key companies and let momentum do the rest.
This isn’t to say your income property investments are entirely safe from meddling bureaucracies. Tax laws could be changed. The process of obtaining loans could be made more complicated but, all in all, outright manipulation of property price on the scale seen in other markets should be a little bit harder to do.
Every single day real people are losing actual money in other investment assets due to government and banking interference. Maybe it’s time for a class action lawsuit against the United States government or the Federal Reserve System. Just an idea.
Better yet. Remove your funds from the stock market and other artificial markets. Put it into income properties and use prudent leveraging techniques to make the bank fund your financially independent future.
