Posts Tagged ‘ real estate ’

Cheap Houses Hedge Inflation Risk

Jan 5th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
Investment ideas are cyclical. They come and go, like fashions or cicadas, obeying their own curious rhythms. In the last few years, rare was the investment thinker who said you should buy a house. Housing was in a bubble that was deflating. But the investment seasons turn. Today some smart investors ...read more

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Peak Oil and Unpaid Mortgages Will Kill Suburbia

Apr 6th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, Oil
In a place like upstate New York, north of Albany, where April is more generally known as “mud season,” and the wait for “ice-out” on the big lakes takes forever, and on frigid nights the windigos steal through the tops of the tall pines — it would seem foolish to ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Housing, Oil | 31 comments


An Insider’s View of the Real Estate Train Wreck

Feb 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. As John Mauldin, a former faculty member himself, knows, we’re very selective with our speakers. And there was no one in ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies | 3 comments


Who Killed 21 Georgia Banks?

Aug 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
“It does gall you. Just because we're a little bitty county doesn't mean we don't need a bank. It wasn't our fault." -- Hazel Bedingfield, 79, who now travels 24 miles for her Social Security payment at her new bank You deposit your paycheck on Friday and can’t get money out on ...read more

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U.S. House Prices in Gold

May 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Housing
The broad sweep in housing-gold ratios is just as broad and as sweeping as both gold bulls and bears might hope... Even the UK's small, tightly packed mainland, floating off the edge of Europe, includes disparate and distinct real-estate markets. Glasgow is as different from London as Cornwall from Cheshire. But ...read more

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Your Cash is Trash, and So Are Most of Your Investments

Jun 15th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
Almost everyone, probably including yourself, gets held back by inertia at one time or another. It can happen with anything, including investments. Inertia weighs on an investor, trapping him in a state of paralysis and freezing his portfolio, almost forcing him to hold on to whatever he already owns – for ...read more

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