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Missing Money
There are so many ways you may be missing money. Missed opportunities are a big one, but there is literally missing money you can find...
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Term Premium and Tightening Market Conditions
Visit: https://www.facebook.com/NIFECLA for more charts and updates. The Fed may slow or stop increasing rates as term premium in bonds...
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Is Buying a Smaller House a Good Idea?
What if you are forced to buy a smaller house because of higher rates... Key consideration: Appreciation (offsets cost of ownership...
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Bonds, Bills, Notes - What's The Difference?
It is no secret that the government is 'making money' literally by issuing debt. As we've discussed on prior posts, when the bank loans...
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Some Favorite AI Tools by Category
The research category is new to me, but I'm finding helpful when writing quick posts or summaries. Personal Assistant/AI Tools: ChatGPT -...
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Is Interest the Price of Time?
Just a thought - but in our course we say that if: 'time is money' then 'time management is money management'. Me I was reading...
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Chart Storm Hero - July 2023 - Be a Mortgage Advisor
My favorite charts from this past month and the stories they tell us about what's going on in financial (real estate, lending and...
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Housing Values Keep Going Up
Black Knight August 2023 Mortgage Monitor Report Highlights - Home prices are at record highs, both nationally and locally. - The lack...
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Boomers Are Winning a Battle for Housing
Short video pointing out some key points around leverage. If you are in the housing game you can trade up or down, but with leverage...
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More Credit Card Debt Than Savings?
The Rising Trend of Credit Card Debt Among US Adults A recent study conducted by Bankrate has highlighted an alarming trend in the...
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July 2023 - What's Happening in Real Estate and Lending
What's happening in the real estate, lending and wealth creation landscape. Each month I'll highlight what I find interesting, and why in...
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HEY Mom... Where Does Debt Come From?
When we talk about debt pulling spending power forward, it means that people can buy things even if they don't have enough money saved...
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How To Do Great Work?
http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html Working with and coaching students, adults and even retirees, this question comes up in many ways....
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Amortization Table
A simple amortization table is a handy resource if you don't have one lying around. We talked about how powerful this can be as an...
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Understanding Nominal Versus Real Property Value Growth
Nominal growth and real growth are two concepts used to measure the increase in real estate values over time. They represent different...
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Homebuilders - A Thought Experiment (ITB)
I wonder if home builders are a good investment here, or did they front run all this building that they are doing and the recession takes...
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Yield Curves that Invert in the Night
What's an inverted yield curve and why should you care? Imagine you have a lemonade stand, and you sell lemonade to your friends....
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House Value w/out the Lag
House values are dynamic and all real estate is local... but we often see values measured at a large aperture, like 'national' house...
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What Is Enough?
We've taken our What Is Enough? series that is available at niofe.org and placed it into a playlist on YouTube for convenience. This is a...
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Cash and Liability Management
Now on YouTube. We've had people ask about this in the past - as a convenience we have posted as a playlist. This series from niofe.org...
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What is the Purpose of Life?
Stan Hayward turns this around for us, in a lovely poem. I've taken the liberty of using AI and turning his poem into a video.
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Room Temperature Coffee is 'Easy'
Why don't we all drink room temperature coffee? It's really easy, just pour water into a cup, and add your coffee and stir. Easy,...
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Do you know how to surf the AI wave? You better learn...
We don't know what the future may look like, but I bet it's going to look more like this than we might expect: (image of housekeeper...
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Doing More with Less - AI for lending and real estate!
When is less more? When you can use less time to provide a greater output. Technology has already been doing this for us, but the...
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