Tag: housing
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Do you feel like your are spending more? Yes, because you are.
I am not sorry if you find this post to be political. Because it isn’t only political, it is also true and can’t be questioned because the facts speak for themselves. Here is the breakdown of inflation over the the last several years. U.S inflation rate for 2023 average has been 4.5% average this year…
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This is why inflation is going to persist and will continue to erode your purchasing power.
As of me writing this post this morning we are awaiting the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May 2023 to be released. What is CPI? It is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. Indexes are available for the U.S.…
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How to to turn $30 thousand dollars in to $500 thousand.
A lot of us didn’t learn this math in school because it isn’t taught this way. Instead you attend school from age 5-18 taking a bunch of classes and courses that they tell you are important and you learn later in life that they really weren’t that important. What I have done here is outlined…
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The unintended consequences of low mortgage rates
Most people are probably tired of hearing about the current home mortgage rates. Everyone knows they have been raised four times this year and the Fed may raise them a fifth time in the next day or so. But one of the unintended consequences we are facing right now of very low mortgage rates prior…