Libertarian thinkers gather ‘round! Professor Benjamin Ginsberg joins Jason Hartman on episode #344 of The Creating Wealth Show to discuss the rising cost of college education and the marginalization of citizens curren...
For most of modern human history, retirement investing consisted of socking away a percentage of your paycheck during your working years, buying some blue chips stocks, and living off the dividends during retirement. Acc...
When you purchase a property, there are two component parts. There is the improvement and there is the land. It is important to understand what influences the cost of improvement (the structure) sitting on the land. Envi...
If you’re in the investment game, you’ve probably Googled “inflation calculator”. You probably know that 4 percent inflation over ten years is$66,000. So you purchase two four-plexes in two cities, $500,000 each....
As inflation hits, you may have noticed that mortgages are following a similar trend. To understand this, we must first break down the idea of a mortgage. First, they consist of two things—the monthly payment you’re ...
You might have noticed that we’re in an interesting time, financially. We’ve got asset deflation and monetary inflation—assets decreasing in value and dollars that offer temporary strength. This, as Jason Hartman h...
Jason Hartman has previously mentioned that gold bugs have the right idea but draw the wrong conclusions—and here are five reasons why. First, gold has no financing. Real estate does, which makes it the superior asset....
You may be asking yourself whether or not Jason Hartman’s advice is relevant if inflation doesn’t happen. His advice and theories are based on years of careful research, but hey—we’re all wrong from time to time....
You might remember that monthly income projection is based on RV Ratio™, which is (in a perfect world) .7 percent. .5 percent is the least acceptable ration, and .6 will do. Assume a property is only rented 11 months o...
Jason Hartman tells a story in which a property manager from one of his properties phones him at 8:00 in the morning, from another state. He’s mildly annoyed because it is early and he isn’t a morning person. Five mi...