It 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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Cyprus has been dominating the news as the latest over-indebted European country needing a bailout. It is reported to have total debt equal to approximately nine times its GDP. Now that is some serious leverage. It wasn’t always this way though. Here’s an interesting piece from 1954 talking about how crazy it is to put such a prosperous island like Cyprus,
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My professional responsibilities and passions are centered on enhancing the lives of our investors by generating compelling investment returns without taking excessive risk. If we do this well then our employees and key principals should benefit accordingly. Our core competency at CWS Capital Partners is in the apartment industry through the acquisition,
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With the publication of my book The Philosophical Investor – Transforming Wisdom into Wealth now happening within two months (March 17, 2015), I wanted to turn my attention to some of the various themes I focus on in the book. Wealth is one of the most important themes and is where all roads ultimately lead in the book.
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The Power of Partnerships in Two Important Areas of My Life
In my soon to be published book I discuss the power of partnerships in two important areas of my life: work and personal. CWS was founded in 1969 by Bill Williams and Jim Clayton when they met at Indian Guides and soon discovered they had read the same book on striking it rich in real estate.
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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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We have been strong advocates of the premise that renter household formations will continue to capture a larger percentage of overall household formations. Clearly the United States economy became irrationally focused and reliant upon homeownership during the bubble days of 2003-7. While we knew that apartments would not stage any type of meaningful recovery while the economy was contracting from 2008 through 2009,
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I have written previously about a couple of important demographic and social trends that support long-term demand for apartment renting. These include delayed marriages and the corresponding births that are taking place at older ages for women. This week two reports came out showing how these trends continue. For the first time the Census Bureau is now tracking same sex marriages in its national marriage statistics.
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I just returned from a two week European vacation to the United Kingdom which included a cruise of the British Isles (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and England) and a few days in London. The weather was unusually good for this time of the year, the cruise was wonderful, the places were quite interesting and scenic,
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“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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