Trading! Â Â Â Today, you’ll get a taste of trading, and what it can mean to be a trader. What is trading? Trading is an active style of participating in the financial markets that seeks to outperform traditional buy-and-hold investing…
More Rises In Rates…. Mortgage rates were moving higher this week as the bond markets continued a semi-weaker trend for April. Bonds (which factor in determining rates) are under pressure for various reasons. Rates responded in a fairly big way in…
Its Springtime! Time To Think about Summer Water Issues! This April, take some time to focus on steps you can take to conserve water in your home. Water conservation refers to any beneficial reduction of water usage, loss or waste…
Where ever there is money to be made or money to be spent, there are unscrupulous folks will try and take advantage, trying to dupe the system or commit flat-out fraud. Getting a home loan is no different. There’s all…
Washington Senators At Work Last year, when Congress voted to drastically reduce corporate income taxes, it really undermined the nation’s largest subsidized housing program. But this week’s federal spending compromise may help square up the affordable housing issue. The program,…
The Federal Reserve has wished for more consumer-price inflation in the past few years. It looks like their wish is finally being granted by the powers able to grant such wishes. The Labor Department reports that its Consumer Price Index…
What is a financial goal and how many of us actually sit down to create one for ourselves? While you take this time to think of ways to organize and clean out your home, mind and body, also take a…
New Tax Law Concerns? Freddie Mac took a look at some possible effects of the new, Trump-era “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” in an early edition of its ‘Outlook’ economic forecast. This month, it takes it’s analysis granular…
Pending-home sales fell 4.7%. That is the lowest reading since October of 2014, and the biggest monthly decline since 2010, as the recovery from the 2008 mortgage crisis was just getting started. What happened: The NAR’s “Index Of Pending Home…
The Trump Administration said it wanted to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of government control. Okay. But in the meantime, it’s being unabashed about trying to use revenue from U.S.-backed mortgage guarantors to reduce the deficit. In the…
