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With the NBA playoffs quickly approaching, we can’t help but be curious if it makes good business sense to invest in the “Association.” As you ponder the various asset possibilities into which you could plow your pile of investment cash, has your brain flitted briefly to the idea of buying an National Basketball Association team? [...]
Jason Hartman and author and entrepreneur, Sean McCauley, discuss what it takes for young entrepreneurs to make it in business today. Listen at: http://jasonhartmanfoundation.org/articles/young-wealth-show. Sean’s book, DNA of the Young Entrepreneur: A Way to Wealth for Young Entrepreneurs, provides young adults with the understanding of what success requires. Sean talks about his own path to [...]
If you’re a young whippersnapper, you should be aware of something. The “American System” that propelled our country into a position of unequaled military and economic power is in the process of slipping away from your generation. We invented the computer, built the internet, created the kind of corporate capitalism that came to dominate the [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice to be little bird on the shoulder of the world’s billionaires last year and find out which investments they were hot on as the recent recession proceeded? As luck would have it, required SEC filings force billionaire money managers to reveal exactly where they’re putting their money. Most recent results are [...]
Jason Hartman talks with author Todd Babbitt about his rise to wealth through real estate investing while still in his 20s. More at http://jasonhartmanfoundation.org/articles/young-wealth-show. What would you do with a million dollars? For the majority of Americans, the answer to this question will remain only a dream. But not to Todd Babbitt, who reached his [...]
Employment is one of the fundamental factors of economic growth that represent the most frequently used yardstick for measuring recoveries. In discussion of employment, there are two distinctly different categories of unemployment that must be understood. The first is the ‘narrow’ definition that compares the people who are unemployed and looking for work against the [...]
Austin experienced a moderate value contraction after the financial collapse, but is now regressing back toward its long-term trend of modest single digit appreciation. The economic fundamentals of Austin continue to be strong as it moves into 2011. Currently, approximately 37% of listings in Austin are from foreclosures. With many companies seeking to move out [...]
Oil prices have been going through a period of very significant volatility over the last few years. In the months preceding the financial crisis, global demand for energy was perceived to be on a permanent upward trajectory. This drove a large degree of speculation on oil prices by investment fund managers. The resultant run-up in [...]
