Stagflation — A Blast From the Past for Today’s Economy?

It was an unpleasant word when it was coined back in the seventies, and that’s still true today. But some economists fear that stagflation _- that hybrid of stagnation and inflation that raised its ugly head fur decades ago may be returning to haunt the emerging...

Top 5 Real Estate Scams: Old Schemes, New Technology

Scam artists have probably been around as long as humans have – and their basic bag of tricks hasn’t changed. Now though, the Internet is crating ways to put new spins on those old tricks to reach even more potential marks — and the turmoil in the housing market...

Bud Conrad: Income Property Investing and Geopolitics

Jason Hartman interviews Bud Conrad, Chief Economist of Casey Research, regarding the geopolitical focal points in our world, funneling these down to how it all affects the United States. Bud mentions the importance of looking at the big picture of what is happening...

Cheap Cash Sales Cost Money

Want to buy a house? Got a dollar to spend? That’s the sales pitch for the infamous “dollar house” in Detroit – a home that’s actually listed for sale for just one measly buck. But even tat that rock bottom price, nobody’s biting. As of the beginning of August 2013,...

Palladium: Beating the Gold Standard?

Gold prices are continuing to tumble, dropping in June 2013 to their worst first-half levels in over 30 years, thanks in part to the rebound of the US economy and the planned rollback of the Federal Reserve’s mortgage securities stimulus plan. And as gold fades from...