Investing Strategies

Ok……BIG yawn. Last month Google sunk $125 million into Lending Club – the leader in peer-to-peer lending. Does it mean anything about Google? Lending Club? The banking industry? Yes….a little. But much less than most pundits in the personal finance space would have you think. Background On Lending Club Lending Club is one of a [...]

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If you’ve been wondering how to invest in energy, fracking could be the way to go. The United States is developing more and more domestic energy sources through this process. As a result, we rely less on foreign suppliers. According to the International Energy Agency*** our country will reduce oil imports from 10 million barrels [...]

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Are you an optimist or pessimist? This isn’t just a something to discuss with your therapist. It’s actually something very important to look at if you want to make smarter investments. But either way, there are real repercussions. If you are a pessimist you’ll always be on the lookout for risk. That’s good generally speaking. [...]

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Turnkey property investing holds out the promise of high returns, great cash flow, undervalued asset investing and all this without the headaches normally associated with being a landlord. Sounds good….right? I agree. I have to admit, I found this offer to appealing to pass up and I took the plunge into turnkey property investing about [...]

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You may have heard of Lending Club and to help you decide whether or not to use them, I’ve written an extensive Lending Club review. They claim to be the biggest player in Peer-to-Peer lending. They could be right. As of 5/13/13 they’ve funded $1.7 billion in loans – with $140 million funded just last [...]

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