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I’ve written several times here about my search for bargains in the real estate market. With various regions of the U.S. down more than 40 percent and 30-year mortgages heading toward 5 percent, it seems that it’s a buyer’s market. It’s not as easy as it seems, though. In Los Angeles last week, I found […]

Yesterday’s post-Fed bounce took the major market indexes over their 50-day moving averages. That’s a nice short-term positive, and one that many technicians had been looking for in the bear market rally. The Fed’s decision yesterday to adopt essentially a zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) is a big deal. We’re now entering Japan territory, as […]

Many subscribers have written to ask if the failure of the automaker bailout in the Senate last night means Detroit is going under and that we’re facing another leg lower in the market. Congress is not the only option for Detroit. While Congress dinks around over $14 billion for automakers after barely discussing the $700 […]

I won’t be posting many free articles for the rest of this month because I’m working on my real estate portfolio in Southern California and then going to Colorado for Christmas. For subscribers, I’m still working while on the road. The beauty of the modern internet is that it’s everywhere, and I can take just […]

For the past week or so, we’ve been all about oil around here as our stock positions are doing well in the December rally. Oil bounced hard off $40, the long-term support line we’ve been watching for some time now. We were hoping to see lower prices in the short term, but oil has come […]