
The foundational cause of inflation, and what it means to real estate values.

Some of us believe are all suffering from information overload, all of the time. Human beings adapt and adjust quite well so the diseases this excess has brought on are often invisible. A little less interest in our neighbors; a little more in the celebrity of the moment is one symptom. Time is being compressed too; being in too much of a hurry to live each day as it is given to us is another.

Long before CFDs became commonplace, we lived in a land of early programme trading, extended settlement and mainly phone based dealing, and almost twenty years to the day occurred what is now known as ‘Black Monday’This was the session on Monday, October 19th 1987, when the benchmark Dow Jones Index fell by a 508 points, which was then 23% and the biggest one day percentage decline in stock market history, with huge drops also seen right across the world’s equity markets.The falls actually c

Do not skip the idea of refinancing your home mortgage. Time is now to take action or you may miss the bus. Going by the trends of the recent years, every time Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan opens his vocal shutter, the interest rates go up. If not by a substantial margin, then at least by 25 basis points.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. The downside wasn’t so pretty as investors and hard working people who had invested in their companies 401K plans suddenly found the value of their holdings not only approach zero but in some cases hit zero, all within a year or two after the Fed created bubble popped.