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The Short-Term Secret to Long-Term Investment Success

Long-Term Investment Success

“Victory; a matter of staying power.”

– Elbert Hubbard

Famed economist (and very successful investor) John Maynard Keynes said in the long run, we’re all dead. This is obviously irrefutable, independent of reincarnation and afterlives.

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Why do Millennials Still Live at Home?

Millennials

The U.S. apartment market continues to perform extremely well. According to a recent report from CBRE, vacancy rates are near 15-year lows as new supply is being easily absorbed as demand exceeds supply nationally. The nation’s 62 largest apartment markets had a second quarter vacancy rate of 4.2%.

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Greece Blinked – Do They Really Need More Austerity?

Greece AusterityIt looks like Greece blinked and is giving its creditors much of what they’re asking for. In my opinion, it’s just going to create more hardship for the Greek people. In my book, I wrote a lot about the risk of austerity in the United States derailing the recovery in 2010 and 2011.

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A Whiff of Deflation? Are Treasury Yields Any Indication?

There Appears to be a Whiff of Deflation in the air if Treasury Yields are any Indication.

The data just may surprise you and solidify why I say that there is a whiff of deflation. Let’s start with a graph of the 10-year Treasury yield over the past year:

This is showing the classic pattern of lower highs and lower lows,

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The Art of Prospering Through Market Bubbles

“Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths.  It represents the path to big money.  The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.”

-George Soros

As a follow up to last week’s post and similar to the one from two weeks ago,

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