Will Taxing the Rich Hurt Housing?

A new proposal to slap uber-wealthy property owners in New York City with extra taxes could mean the end of luxury buildings in the city – and critics fear that this kind of strategy for “taxing the rich” could set a dangerous precedent for other cash strapped US...

Civil Forfeiture Laws Hit Bank Accounts

You’re not a criminal. You’re an entrepreneur or an investor who’s making regular, perfectly legal deposits to your bank accounts. But a little known law now making a lot of headlines allows the IRS and other law enforcement agencies seize those bank accounts and...

Red State, Blue State: Who Wins in Housing?

And you thought there was just one US housing market. Turns out, there are many regional versions that make up the national market whose ups and downs are being closely monitored after the massive collapse of a few years ago. And not all those markets are behaving the...

Got 5 Minutes? Learn Your Investing Purpose

Can a five minute exercise help you find investing success? If Adam Leipzig is right, it could. In a recent TED talk filmed in Malibu, the film producer and creative entrepreneur posed five questions that can be answered in five minutes to reveal a person’s life...

Student Loan Debt Hits Housing Hard

Students aren’t the only ones hit hard by the cost of a college education. The staggering burden of student loan debt affects just about every area of the economy – with troubling implications for the still struggling housing market – and investors building...