Jan 18, 2017

Numerous foreclosures suggest that cities and states do not get the residential or commercial property taxes they require streaming into their coffers, and they experience a spending plan crisis themselves as an outcome. These cities and states, then increase home taxes on the staying property owners, which then puts even more stress on individuals who are...

Jan 18, 2017

Counties around the country live and die by property taxes.  They rely on those taxes to pay for schools, firefighter, police, etc.  When property owners have residential, or commercial, properties on which they can no longer maintain the property taxes, regional (county) and federal governments will put these properties up for auction. The reality is that...

Jan 12, 2017

For a few years we have been discussing how manipulated the market has become and how unreliable it is to follow the past.  Don’t get me wrong, we are not throwing out everything and starting from scratch.  It’s just that suspending common sense and trading on market sense now requires extra patience. For the past 10 years or so it was understood that the VIX...

Jan 6, 2017

Our lives have been bombarded with financial experts preaching, “… debt is bad, debt is bad, debt is bad.” Saying that debt is bad is like saying fire is bad and you should never use it.  Just like anything in life if you misuse the greatest of things it will be bad for you. How our educational system has failed generations of Americans and people around the...

Jan 5, 2017

Rules, rules, rules.  One of the SEC rules concerns the ability of the everyday trader to manage his/her own money.  The rule states that if you have less than $25,000 in your trading account then your trading will be limited to only 3 trades every 5 business days. So long as you stay below the 3 trades every 5 days then your account will be labeled as a...