Category: Blog Articles
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Weak Currencies Push Trade in the Global Marketplace
The dong, the rial, and the leone – these exotic names may not be as familiar as the dollar, the yen or the euro, but these weak currencies may be changing the global financial picture more than their stronger counterparts. The complex relationship between the weak and strong currencies of the world affect virtually all…
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Can Cybercurrency Change the World?
Digital currency keeps on making news – and making financial experts worry. In what appears to be the perfect marketing move, the Bitcoin – an electronic currency – was recently used to buy the Tesla, an electric car. And while many hail the move as another step toward the Bitcoin’s eventual dominance of world money…
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Bitcoins + Seasteading = A Brave New World
It’s easy to complain about the government. More rare, however, is the ability to conceive a plan of how to implement an alternative and then actually do it. That’s where the Seasteading Institute comes into play. This non-profit organization exists for the purpose of developing plans for the construction of floating cities with independent governments…
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Fake Financial Advising Targets Older Investors
With taglines like “Can you afford to die?” and “How will you spend your retirement?” financial planning programs aimed at older investors appear everywhere, promising peace of mind and security – for a price. But, as the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau reports, all too often these “financial advisors” targeting seniors with money to spare have…
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All Hail The World’s Weakest Currencies
A few years back we posted an article titled “The 5 Worst Currencies in the World.” Somewhat to our surprise, the topic generated an incredible amount of traffic, which – belatedly – led to this post. Anyone can sit down to a computer and cast aspersions at the currency of the latest war-torn, totalitarian hellhole…
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Digital Currency Trades Strong in a Changed World
When James Howells tossed out an old hard drive recently, he didn’t realize he’d tossed out a fortune. But the hard drive contained 7500 Bitcoins the Welsh-born IT professional had “mined” several years before – now worth a whopping $7.5 million, as the digital currency is trading for $1,000 a coin. That’s a strong showing…
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Invest to Protect Investments
Smart investing creates opportunities for building wealth over the long term, and that’s what makes investing – and real estate investing in particular — so appealing. But there’s another kind of investment that many would-be entrepreneurs miss – the smaller investments needed to protect those wealth-building assets. One of those initial investments that protect a…
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Mortgage Lending: A New Direction for 2014?
After nearly five years of ups nd downs following the massive housing collapse of 2008, the mortgage industry may be facing a watershed year in 2014 – and the shift from refinancing to purchases could mean good news for the economy as a whole. According to a new report from HousingWire, real estate industry professionals…
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Is Foreign Investment Driving the Recovery?
By several major benchmarks, the economic recovery appears to be on the upswing. The employment picture is rosier and the housing market –always the backbone of economic stability – is humming too. But a recent report by the National Association of Realtors reveals that much of that growth is fueled by foreign investment – a…
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Ten Quotes In Praise of Property
In a volatile world filled with economic uncertainty, real estate endures. That’s why a healthy housing market supports a rosy outlook for other indicators such as employment and consumer purchasing. The value of real estate as a stable commodity that supports the economy as a whole has long been known, as we see from this…