To Infinity and Beyond: QE Continues

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  If you presently have a mortgage, your mailbox has no doubt been inundated with fliers from mortgage lenders advertising extremely low rates. And it’s true: the days of the 3% mortgage are back. But...

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Demographics: The Lean Years

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           You’ve no doubt heard the expression, “make hay while the sun is shining.” When conditions are favorable for productive endeavors, you should use that opportunity to get things done! Well...

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Get Into The Arena

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“Fortune favors the bold!” “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” Really, there is no shortage of aphorisms and clichés meant to convey this simple truth: If you want to succeed, you must take risks. You must get...

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Demographics in America: Tsunami

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 It is an under-appreciated truism that all of history has been leading up to the present. While we can shape our futures, we do so with clay inherited from past generations. Like an earthquake beneath...

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Money and Budgets: It’s a Puzzle

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The subject of this week’s show is the most riveting subject on earth: Budgeting! I say this only half-jokingly because once you know the power and importance of budgeting—and most people don’t—it becomes an fascinating...

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To Flip or Not to Flip

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“Buy low, sell high” is about the only investing advice you’ll ever need. For many investors, this means buying an asset when its value is low then waiting for the market to raise its value....

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Patriot Tales and the Women of the Revolution

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Everyone has a story worth telling. I’ve learned this from my time in the mortgage industry and on the radio, having helped thousands of individuals with their mortgages and having talked with thousands more who...

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Summer Vacation? What Vacation?

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Summer is allegedly vacation season, but it hasn’t felt that way to me in years. Summer is the busy season for mortgages; kids are out of school or back from college; neighborhoods are bustling with...

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Let the Biblical Floods Subside

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  Natural disasters are a fact of life in Colorado Springs. You can nearly set your watch to them. Every year we are guaranteed at least one moderately destructive hailstorm, one large wildfire, and at...

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