Investing in banks and companies that specialize in real estate finance is not recommended in this day and age. As the mortgage collapse and financial crisis have shown, there is too much fraud going on in the industry and it is difficult to know which real estate finance investment is backed by real assets and [...]

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If you are an online trader, or wish to be so, you can trade markets and products through two different ways. First is through a full-service, also may known as traditional, brokerage firms. Second is through a discount brokerage firms. First way is costly but is usually safer as there shall be experienced/educated fellows who [...]

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In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott Jr. said the recession is changing consumer-buying habits.
What Scott didn’t say is that Wal-Mart is perfectly positioned to capitalize on those changes.
“The No.1 issue today is [consumers'] concern about their job,” Scott said during [...]

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We’ve survived the tech bubble and the housing bubble, but are we headed for something more catastrophic than either of those? Some experts are beginning to fear the worst.
Let’s review recent financial events. The meltdown in the global financial markets created a wave of panic and a surge of money has poured into what has [...]

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Recently I spoke with my co-managing partner Michael Facchini, of Regent Global Funds, an alternative investment fund, at an Institutional Investor conference on Distressed Real Estate in New York City. The folks at Institutional Investor did a fantastic job putting it together and assembled a group of very knowledgeable and informed speakers from the industry. [...]

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