Tag: income property investing
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Is Insurance an “Investment?”
Insurance policies may protect assets in the event of a catastrophe, but are they — as insurance companies would have it – a real investment? A new Forbes business report reveals that while insurers sell policies as sound investments in the future, they’re actually using the premiums paid by worried — and trusting – policyholders…
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Can The World Have Too Many Currencies?
While the Bitcoin continues to grab headlines for reasons good and bad, other digital currencies are quietly staking their own claim in the international money markets. As it’s becoming clear that virtually anybody can put a digital money system in place, economists and financial experts worry about the impact these upstarts could have on the…
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Housing and Job Numbers Suggest a Turnaround
Amid the gloomy news about a slow and fitful economic recovery, some corners are clearly being turned. Those two major indicators of economic health, housing and employment, go hand in hand to suggest a more stable future. Case in point: a drop in mortgage delinquency and foreclosure rates to levels not seen since before the…
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Services Profit From Identity Theft Anxiety
Is the digital age becoming the age of anxiety? As security breaches and word of new identity theft scams hit the headlines on a seemingly regular basis, anyone who uses computers and mobile devices could be at risk for account hacking and identity theft. That kind of data theft costs billions a year – and…
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Danger Signs for the Bitcoin in Exchange CEO’s Arrest?
Is there a plot to kill the Bitcoin? The recent arrest of Bitcoin exchange exec Charlie Shrem makes some advocates of the digital currency believe so, as one of the charges filed against him in the Silk Road money laundering case appears to open the door for targeting alternative currency systems of all kinds. Charlie…
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The Long Reach of Shadow Banking
Shadow banking – the financial world most have never heard of – stepped into the light recently with news from China about an investigation into that country’s system of unregulated financial dealings. While it’s easy to assume that this alternative to mainstream banks is purely a phenomenon of countries with a history of secrecy and…
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Mobile Banking Apps May Put Data at Risk
Need to make a trade at three AM? Or shift money between accounts while you’re waiting in the airport? There’s an app for that. But although money management apps from online stores and financial institutions make 24/7 banking easy, a new study by cybersecuirty expert Ariel Sanchez finds that at least 90 percent of those…
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US Markets Still Lure Foreign Investment
Is foreign money propping up the US economic recovery? International investing in key economic sectors continues to grow every year – and that raises concerns that foreign investment could crush its US competitors and compromise growth in the long term. That’s a paradox that experts are watching in the newly rebounding housing market, where foreign…
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Life After Lawsuits: Megabanks Try to Regroup
After racking up over $40 billion in legal fees fighting government sponsored lawsuits over the past few years, Bank of America wants you to know it’s changed its ways. Faced with allegations of mistreating both its customers and employees after th death of an overworked intern at one of its London branches, the bank –…