China’s New Silk Road: Opportunities For Investors?

China’s fabled Silk Road, that ancient trade route that brought Asian riches to hungry European cities, is getting new leas on life, thanks to a recent initiative by the Chinese government. And while the New Silk Road project has the US and some of its allies worried,...

Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Houses?

It’s no secret in real estate circles that Millennials aren’t buying houses. And while financial experts cite several key reasons why that’s true, they don’t carry equal weight in all areas of the country – a point worth considering for investors in rental real...

Should Bad Banks Handle Pension Funds?

In recent times, American workers have seen their retirement plans evaporate as employers and financial institutions mismanage or whittle away their pension funds. As another round of indictments come down for the nation’s biggest banks, one Senator is asking whether...

Artificial Intelligence: Changing the Investing World?

For over a century, scie3nc fiction writers have been inventing futures in which intelligent machines and robots run the world, with either wondrous benefits or devastating consequences for human life. And now, thanks to lightning fast advances in robotics and...

The Qualified Mortgage Rule: What Investors Need to Know

The Ability to Repay and Qualified Mortgage Rules for mortgage lending took effect in January 2014, part of a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at boosting the housing recovery after the crash of 2008. But those regulations may be having the opposite effect. The...