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Being in the real estate industry in 2005 made it easy to see the housing crash coming. What drove it home for me was how many times respectable agents would …

The most basic function any organism must demonstrate to be considered alive in the technical sense is to take in nourishment from its surroundings to fuel itself. For thousands of …

Truisms are stories we tell one another so often that we start to believe they’re true, even though they don’t stand up to even the most elementary testing. By way …

There is a lot of good news in today’s economic numbers but you couldn’t tell by talking to the average person. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association, …

Last year I speculated that 2015 was going to be a tougher year for equities than what we’ve been used to seeing and gold prices would rebound. So far 2015 …

Predicting the future is always a risky enterprise because the future has a way of making fools of us all. That’s particularly true when it comes to investing. If we …

The corporate raiders of the 1980s mined America’s corporate landscape of wealth without adding any value. Today the strip mining of our corporate wealth has largely played out and the …

The numbers don’t lie, Americans are addicted to debt. The numbers available as of July 2014 paint an alarming picture of a populace drunk on borrowing and on a collision …

If you like wild, careening roller coasters with blind curves and death drops, then you were right at home in the stock market lately. Stocks fell, then rose to dizzying …

Denial is a powerful force in human nature and a very deeply ingrained component of our character; a psychological defense mechanism that helped our ancestors live long enough to reproduce. …