Archive - Aug 7, 2015 - Blog entry

"Does this country need a hug?" Well, Jon, actually, yeah, it kinda did.

Busted ...

Colorado is now the newest state to approve intrastate crowdfunding allowing the state’s residents to be able to purchase stock in local, private companies without becoming an accredited investor. At this point, 24 states have passed laws or rules allowing for intrastate equity crowdfunding.

We would like to believe that a period of peace and prosperity lies ahead of us. Unfortunately, the facts do not support this panglossian assertion. If history  repeats it is more likely that we see hyperinflation and the sharp devaluation of paper and digital currencies in the coming years, given that no experiment with money printing has ever had a positive outcome.

Chinese investment in U.S. commercial real estate has changed over the past three years, and this has caused changes in the ownership of U.S. assets. It has changed even more over the past six months, and this means even bigger changes for U.S. industrial real estate.

Elements of the financial media are either unbelievably lazy or completely complicit in helping to maintain the illusion of success for the Centralized powers (large governments and Central Banks).