Season 3 (Grid, classic)

Contrary to what you may have heard, investing should not be sexy. Fast-paced, high-risk, get-rich-quick trading is not investing—it’s gambling. Good investors should be prudent, patient, and bored to death, and the investing instrument most…

  I come across a lot of statistics in my day-to-day readings, and the statistic most pertinent to today’s show is this: The percentage of 18-34 year olds living with their parents is 30%. This…

 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…

Much as I enjoy talking about the real estate and mortgage industries, I find it refreshing to dedicate the occasional show to other important topics. This week, the subject was veterans and their stories. If…

Spring is here—finally!—and I for one am glad to bid farewell to winter. Economically, this winter was a season of uncertainty. The economy was sputtering, the full effects of the sequester had been realized, new…

We are now effectively five years into the government’s 2009 stimulus program. How’s that going for us? To save the banking system and revive the economy, the government tried TARP, tax cuts, tax hikes, and…

The theme of this week’s show is how money is like sex. Granted, there are differences between the two. It’s okay to find money in the street. It’s okay to have money on the kitchen…

On previous shows, I’ve mentioned that the single most important mortgage product of the foreseeable future is the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, HECM, or Reverse Mortgage. Fundamental shifts in America’s economy demographic makeup suggest reverse…