The Game of Monopoly
The Game of Monopoly: Is it Child’s Play or a Roll of the Dice for Big Business?
The official history of Monopoly, as told by Hasbro, which owns the brand, states that the board game was invented in 1933...
Five Steps to Creating Leaders & Successful Teams
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
It is my belief that many of the employee and management problems we see in the workplace are dire...
Renter Nation | The New Normal
A loan at four percent is $356,000 at five percent, which ultimately requires more of a down payment (savings that people do not have) and/or possibly less home.
The alternative is a higher payment if yo...
Never Stop Learning: The High Value of Financial Education
Who is John Galt? Some of you are very aware of exactly who he is. Others, not so much.
John Galt is a main figure in the 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's epic novel about a group of businessmen ...
The Uncertainty in Investing: Learn to Protect Your Assets and Hedge Inflation
For the last five years, I have attended an Investor Summit at Sea on a cruise ship as a speaker.
This year, I was also able to bring my wife and two boys, as it happened to be on our kids’ spring break ...
The 2014 Real Estate Market | A Year of Recovery
The majority of the professionals in the real estate field agree that the real estate industry is in various stages of recovery.
The real estate market in all areas are on their own path of recovery, so ...
The Importance of Watching Currency, Interest Rates and Inflation
I don’t know about you, but when I was younger I couldn’t imagine a more boring subject than learning about currency, interest rates and inflation.
What I have come to realize is that I should have learn...
Entrepreneurship | Our Kids’ Future: Six Important Lessons We Need to Teach Them
Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone.
That's a student every 26 seconds — or 7,000 a day. These dropouts make up nearly half the heads of households on...
Prospects for Profitability in Real Estate | Market Conditions and Demographics Create New Opportunities
Many experts have concluded that the property market has finally hit recovery and they are now predicting the positive growth of the real estate sector in the future.
What professional investors understa...
Profiting From an Aging Population: It’s Time to Educate our Youth
There has never been a more important time in our history for the financial education of our youth.
We need to make sure the next generation is financially literate. One of the biggest advantages you can...