Fake Lawyers Run Real Estate Scams

The threat of legal action strikes fear in the hearts of most people – and it’s a fear that scammers employ quite effectively. Now, along with housing market fraud and schemes like the Nigerian bank transfer scam, fraudsters posing as attorneys (and some real lawyers)...

AMA 51 – The Next Great Crash with Harry Dent

[iframe style="border:none" src="http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2291402/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard" height="100" width="480" scrolling="no"] Jason Hartman interviews returning guest and founder and CEO, Harry Dent, Jr., of HS...

When Good Debt Goes Bad: Gen Y’s Money Crunch

In a previous post, we took a look at why new and recent college graduates saddled with student loans are wary of taking on the traditional debts of adult life: car loans and mortgages. Now, new statistics on college graduation rates reveal that over half of those...

New College Grads Fear Mortgage Debt

Can spiraling college costs crush the economy? As new and recent graduates finish their studies burdened with record levels of student loan debt, some economists fear that might be true. Although the student loan problem has been worsening for the last decade or so,...

AMA 49 – Investor Watchdog with Jack Waymire

[iframe style="border:none" src="http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2287686/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard" height="100" width="480" scrolling="no"] Join Jason Hartman and Investor Watchdog, Jack Waymire, for a discussion concerning the...

Terrorism Insurance? Yes — Sometimes

The toll of events such as last week’s Boston Marathon bombings runs high. The cost of the two homemade pressure cooker bombs exploded at the Marathon? Less than $500, according to some estimates. The cost of closing down Boston? About $333 million per day. That’s...

Bank Fraud Settlement Checks Arrive –Only to Bounce

Nearly four years ago, several of the nation’s major banks were caught red-handed in a variety of foreclosure related abuses collectively termed the “robosigning” scandal. And it’s taken nearly that long for the first checks issued in that settlement to reach the...

AMA 48 – “The End of Cheap China” with Shaun Rein

Despite popular belief, China is no longer a cheap place to do business with labor costs and real estate costs soaring. Join Jason Hartman as he interviews Shaun Rein, author of The End of Cheap China and Managing Director of China Market Research Group in Shanghai,...