Dear FutureMoneyTrends.com Member, I was barely out of high school when I purchased my first rental property at age 18. When I was a teenager, I spent hours a day with a mentor who owned businesses, rental property, and traded on the stock market. My mentor never told...
Dear FutureMoneyTrends.com Member, Renter households have jumped from 38 million in 2008 to 42.4 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The best part about the rental boom is that due to artificially-low interest rates, we are seeing an anomaly: ***rising...
Will she or won’t she? It’s an otherwise inane question often found in the rambling rants of pre-pubescent YouTube channels or the lovelorn lyrics of a corporate-produced boy band. However, in Wall Street’s case, the implications of whether or not...
The calls for a cashless society are strengthening. After all, who uses cash these days anyways? I just swipe my credit card, get the points, and pay it off later – no cash needed, right? That, and digital currencies like Bitcoin are coming out and making...
Crude oil futures contracts were the toast of Wall Street when it sprang up at the start of trading last week, shocking market bears with an 8% leap — capping off a three-day winning streak that added nearly 21% of valuation in the international benchmark Brent...
Driven by the collapse of key commodities oil and copper, the damage in the commodity space has been huge. Since the 2011 top, the CRB index, a proxy for the commodity complex, has lost 45% of its value. Year-on-year, the index is 37% lower. The good news for...