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Mary Trochlil Larsen can help you start a financially successful redesign, redecorate or home staging business, or further develop your existing interior decorating business, gaining you more clients and more profits.

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Investor orientated commentary on economic and monetary issues from a free market perspective. Policies discussed include sound money on a gold standard and limited role of government. Investment research focuses primarily on both precious and base metal

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How to find, buy, and own Minnesota investment property.

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Satellite TV industry news, plus information on DVRs, HDTV and DISH Network.

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It is said the market can sniff out prospective problems and price itself accordingly. If so, then someone needs to get this dog some nasal spray, lickedy-split! The deflation scare currently hovering over the entire market, particularly in the metals and commodities sectors, has been brutal. But the key question today is whether this "scare" will evolve into a genuine deflation threat to the US and the world? - [Read more]

The current stock market crash has spurred a vital national debate about the causes and catalysts of the Great Depression. The dominant school of thought believes that the stubborn refusal of then president Hebert Hoover to intervene after the stock market crash of 1929, and his preference for free market solutions, led directly to the ensuing decade-long catastrophe. Through this lens, our leaders assure us that the most recent raft of government measures will prevent another episode of bread lines, Hoovervilles and pencil salesmen. As usual they have it completely wrong. In my view, the Depression was created precisely because Hoover followed the path that our government is now taking. - [Read more]

Creating money from nothing to try and keep the economy stoked is far from a modern invention. Mistaking extra money for value is a common enough event throughout history, in fact, right from the 99% debasement of Roman coins in the second and third centuries A.D. to the paper hyper-inflation of Weimar Germany in the 1920s. The horrors which excessive money then spawns are a regular feature as well. Yet politicians and potentates still believe they can out-do the ancients...somehow plucking wealth from thin air with better success than everyone else. Most often in history, this futile attempt meant inking a state-decreed value onto the pulp of dead trees. Nine-hundred and fourteen years ago, for instance, the kingdom of Persia suffered just such a government-made surfeit of money after the harsh winter of A.D. 1294. Thousands of cattle and sheep had died in whats now Kazakhstan. So many thousands, in fact, it emptied the kings treasury of much-needed tax revenues. - [Read more]

On Monday October 13th, the Dow took the fifth biggest upward leap (in percentage terms) in its history and, most notably, since the 1930s. It appeared that Paulson and his fellow G-7 finance ministers had solved the credit crisis. Despite the fact that G-7 taxpayers will be stuck with $3.5 trillion of liabilities to support their governments bailout plans, the stock markets nevertheless bustled with euphoria. The next day, reality dawned once again, and all markets closed down. The truth is that these enormous bailouts enacted around the world, most notably in the United States, have done little or nothing to tackle the enormous deleveraging that is driving us into a serious recession and, if badly handled, a depression. Increasingly, politicians and commentators are talking about the need for a massive, new stimulus package, likely to cost trillions more dollars. - [Read more]

In the old days, landlords would use yard signs and the major newspaper to advertise rental properties. Now we all use Craigslist to find tenants. It is fast, easy and free. What a blessing!

Clark with the Bourke Group (Keller Williams) in Asheville, NC wrote a fantastic post on How NOT to write a Craigslist For Rent Ad. It is insightful and very well thought through. Every landlord needs to read this!

Wendesday, October 29th - 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Bloomington, MN

This is a FREE all day workshop designed for the new and seasoned investor.  This event will feature a full panel of experts in the area of financing, tax, law, 1031 exchanges, financial planning, rental management, insurance and much much more. You will leave this day will real tools to integrate into your investment plan as well as some excellent professional contacts for your Rolodex. Six hours of real estate continuing education have also been applied for.

Featured speakers will be as follows:
Rob Bonahoom Mortgage Coach
Greg Nelson CPA
Jeff Peterson 1031 Specialist
Matt Engel - Attorney
Adam Hartung - Certified Financial Planner
Brent Mohlenhoff - Insurance
Nina Haugen - Rental Management
Bruce Zimmerman - Rent Collection
Peter Fanucci - Credit Lines

Register for the seminar by filling out this quick registration form or call 612-281-5419 for more information.

There has been a great deal of finger-pointing going on. Who is to blame for this extraordinary crisis? Arguably, it is the most personal of the many crises visited upon us in my lifetime and probably the most far-reaching since, as of this morning, it had engulfed most of the world. Congress and the American people are looking for a "villain" or "villains" -- someone or some group that can be tagged with the blame for what has happened to the world economy. Wall Streets investment bankers rank high on that list. Driven by greed, they couldnt have cared less about the corporations which employed them and the customers who sustained them. Government, and central banks, come in a close second. Regulators failed to do their jobs and the central banks simply fed the credit bubble without regard to the consequences. Others tag individuals like Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and George Bush. I could go on with the various candidates in the blame game but it diverts me from my point. - [Read more]

It has been long understood that our federal government is going deeper into debt, consistently raising the debt ceiling and demonstrating no fiscal restraint. In recent years, debt ceiling increases have been placed in "must pass" legislation as a means to guarantee that Republicans as well as Democrats would vote for them when Congress was under Republican control. We also know our nations "negative savings rate" reflects the habits of private citizens, showing those habits to be not tremendously different than the habits of the public sector. Yet, the signs of decline are becoming ever more apparent. So apparent, in fact, that it seems unlikely that bailouts or other gimmicks will have even short term success. More inflation, and creating moral hazard by bailing out egregious offenders, is a recipe for disaster. These activities can seem to provide some short term relief, but it seems we are now at a significant crisis point, where monetary policy gimmicks dont provide the band-aids they did in the past. - [Read more]

If you are a mortgage holder who is either struggling with crushing payments, bitter for having overpaid for your home during the bubble, or who has extravagantly refinanced when prices were rising, the governments landmark $700 billion bailout package has an important message for you: stop making your mortgage payments...immediately. Furthermore, if you believe that with some planning and sacrifice you may be able to meet your mortgage obligations, the governments message is clear: relax, dont bother. While angry voters have labeled the package as a bailout for Wall Street, it is more akin to a "Get out of Jail Free" card for anyone who acted irresponsibly during the boom. Heres why. - [Read more]

Johnny Northsides just dropped me a message saying that he posted his own Stupid Property Repairs entry. You can’t help but get a laugh here.  Love it. It got me thinking that is has been some time since I posted a Stupid Property Repair.  Maybe it has been because I am becoming numb to the [...] - [Read more]

The FDIC insurance limit was increased from $100,000.00 to $250,000.00. The change in coverage limits is effective from October 3, 2008, through December 31, 2009. A link to the FDIC website gives more information: http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2008/fil08102a.html
Many investors conducting 1031 exchanges feel better knowing that the exchange funds are more protected. There are also ways to get more protection by dividing the exchange funds between multiple banks. This is good news for taxpayers!

Call me with questions 1-877-373-1031.
Jeff Peterson
Commercial Partners Exchange Company, LLC
a Qualified Intermediary for 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges

There are several different approaches to calculating a theoretical price for gold. The purpose of this essay is to calculate this figure using two different methods. For each, the total ounces of gold above ground will be divided by: 1. The total amount of currency (physical paper money only) 2. The aggregate sum of published M1 money supply (primarily currency and demand deposits) figures from the worlds central banks. - [Read more]

Financial news have been coming fast and furious in the past four weeks, taking the nationalization of Frannie as a starting point for the worst turmoil any living market participant has experienced in his/her life. What we have seen since can only be called monetary madness where central banks and governments ultimately saddle more than one generation of citizens with debts for the rescue of a financial system that ultimately cannot be successful by generating still more debt. It has become almost impossible to follow all inflationary measures disguised as "liquefying operations" by monetary authorities. At the same time governments begin to blow up future inflation expectations with their unlimited guarantees of savings deposits that have a good possibility of blowing up in their face. - [Read more]

We have been warning for some time that "there is no such thing as a safe asset anymore, you have to take a diversified approach to something as mundane as cash." Unfortunately, the current crisis shows that we may be right. Physical gold is attractive to many investors because of its lack of counter party risk. The only counter party risk with gold held in your personal vault is that someone may break in and steal it. However, even staunch gold bugs rarely hold all their net worth in gold, but diversify if for no other reason that it is impractical to have essentially all your net worth in gold. And while gold is currently fulfilling its role as sound money, it often trades in tandem with other commodities; this can result in stomach-twisting volatility. As a result, many hold gold as insurance, but few truly live on their personal gold standard. In late 2006, we forecast the ensuing surge in volatility to unwind the unprecedented credit expansion that had taken place in the previous years (please click here for past Merk Insights). When the crisis first started, we argued that the markets dealt with a valuation, not a liquidity crisis: financial institutions were unwilling to sell off assets on their books out of fear of jeopardizing their capital ratios. By now, the valuation crisis has morphed into a liquidity crisis where financial institutions dont trust one another; inter-bank lending is grinding to a halt. The business model of most commercial banks consists of borrowing short-term funds to provide long-term loans; if short term funding is not available, central banks step in as the lender of last resort. Consumers, investment banks, large corporations, municipalities and states alike have realized that they do not have a central bank as a lender of last resort; when short-term funding dries up, they may have to file for bankruptcy protection even if they are otherwise financially sound. Quite simply, unless one can afford the risk of not obtaining refinancing, we believe long-term projects ought to be financed with long-term loans. - [Read more]

It has not been a good week for the Republic. It took quite a bit of trampling of the Constitution, but the bailout bill passed, as I suspected it would. The bailout failed the first time it was brought to the House. Undaunted, the Senate pressed on by attaching the bailout as an amendment to another House passed bill that was pending in the Senate. The new bailout version had new taxes, so according to the Constitution it should not have originated in the Senate. The rallying cry heard all over the Hill the past two weeks was that Congress must act. Our economy is facing a meltdown. Would this bill fix it? Nobody could really explain how it would. In fact, few demonstrated any real understanding of credit markets, of derivatives, of credit default swaps or mortgage-backed securities. If they did, they would have known better than to vote for this bill. All they knew was that this administration was saying some frightening things, and asking for a lot of money. And when has Congress ever been able to come up with a better solution to a problem than to throw more of your money at it? So that is what Congress did, enacting a financial PATRIOT Act in the process. - [Read more]

We would like to announce the release of our latest website, “Okashun Local Event Calendar.”

This is a very simple looking event calendar that is packed with features. The calendar gives the user the option to list his/her own events to show in the listings. Before these listing will show on the calendar, they must be approved by the administrator.

Okashun Local Event Calendar

A powerful feature of this calendar is its search function. You are able to search just about everything…location, event, keyword, category, etc…

Give the site a try and add an event of you have one. We think you’ll really like it.

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Steven Seagal joined Red Deluxe on set today during the filming of the new Memphis Police Department recruiting campaign. Red Deluxe is working with the department to launch a massive 18-month strategic push for new officers, and the effort include outdoor, print, online, radio, television, and social media.

Seagal—a part-time Memphis resident and 20-year veteran of the police force in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana—filmed an interview that will be excerpted in a campaign TV spot and online.

The MPD is in the midst of a critical effort to expand the overall force by 500 officers. Seagal donated his efforts to the cause. “I’m a cop, I’m proud to be here, proud to help law enforcement, make the city a better place,” he said.

Pictured are Red Deluxe’s Stinson Liles, Seagal, and Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin.

The upcoming film Sole of a Hustla follows “Big C” Rice as he rises from slinging beepers out of the back of his car on the streets of Memphis to the brink of international success as the CEO of a hot shoe company. The film is in the final editing phase and the studio has hired Red Deluxe Brand Development to put together packaging and publicity materials.

And at the core of the project is a sweet website that will introduce Big C and his crew, tease the film, roll trailers, and offer up a taste of the original soundtrack by Al Kapone.

Sole of a Hustla is coming soon to a theater near you. So we’ve got to get back to coding.

The American Lung Association has selected Red Deluxe Brand Development to for its important “next century” brand project, the organization’s Washington, D.C. headquarters has announced. Red Deluxe will work with the century-old organization to develop a new brand platform and key supporting executions that accommodate the growth of the vital organization.

“The organization is critical in so many areas…from helping people with lung disease to fighting air pollution and second-hand smoke,” said Stinson Liles, a Principal at Red Deluxe. “We’re excited to be part of the effort to get that story out.”

The American Lung Association is the leading organization in the nation working to prevent lung disease and promote lung health.