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2014 

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Countries with the Highest Home Ownership Rates Are Neither The Richest Nor the Happiest The National Association of Realtors (NAR) constantly promotes and incessantly lobbies for increased home ownership touting the supposed stabilizing social benefits. Despite a multitude of U.S. government pro...
06/15/2014

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Home equity loans are back as home prices rise. “Borrowers Tap Their Homes at a Hot Clip” blurted a recent Wall Street Journal Headline. It was bound to happen with rising home prices. Didn’t get a raise? or working two jobs to make ends meet and need cash? If you own a home you may be in luck. T...
06/09/2014

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The European Central Bank just announced that they will be instituting negative interest rates. That means bank customers (banks holding deposits at the European Central Bank) will have to pay to keep their money there. Banks that pay the ECB to hold their Euros are not going to want to pay inter...
06/04/2014

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Artificially low interest rates encourage companies to use their cash to buy back their own shares to drive up their share prices, rather than to invest in their businesses. This explains why the economy is showing limited growth but the stock market is hitting record highs. According to CapitalI...
06/01/2014

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Stocks Soar While Housing Market Stumbles and GDP Turns Negative Something is terrible wrong According to Fed Chairs Bernanke and Yellen quantitative easing was supposed to boost the stock and real estate markets and produce a “wealth effect”. The real estate market is slowing down with pending h...
06/01/2014
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