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Aug 31, 2015

The week after the flash crash, global economic fundamentals remain the same--China could head fifteen percent lower, the Fed is still in hold mode, emerging markets are submerging, and big economies are growing slower. Markets are volatile as we head into the fall, which means there is big trouble when everyone wants...


Aug 28, 2015

The Wall Street Journal reports that luxury apartments are currently the dominant trend in the rental markets with renters paying upwards of $3,000 to $4,000 a month for a two bedroom in larger metro areas and $2,000 a month in markets like Phoenix and St. Louis. Renters are suddenly spending more of their total...


Aug 27, 2015

China now buys about an eighth of the world’s oil, a quarter of its gold, almost a third of its cotton and up to half of all the major base metals. The fear that China’s appetite for commodities, from copper to coal, is falling after a decade of breakneck growth has sent prices tumbling and help sent stock markets...


Aug 26, 2015

Over $2 trillion in value is sitting in farmland in the U.S., but is farmland a good investment?  Goldman Sachs, TIAA CREF and other big names suddenly think so. Many university pension plans are placing dollars into midwest farmland that has seen a decline in pricing over the past three years due to bumper crops and...


Aug 25, 2015

…If you weren’t paying attention to the stock market before Monday, you are now. ..”A 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average will do that,” says best selling author Jason Zweig writing for the Wall Street Journal. The market recovered somewhat on Tuesday, but when we see blood red arrows pointing...