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If publicly held companies do not pay substantial dividends, then when is the common stock holder supposed to get their investment back? So far, it seems like the public has bought the idea that you make your money in the stock market through price appreciation of the common stock. In the long...

Which countries have lower overall tax rates than the USA but are also better places to live and work?

Had a great Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Santa Barbara, best food I ever had. My father, 76 years old has lost half of his pension fund. My brother, the real estate developer, is going bankrupt after having finally accumulated 2 million in "equity". My 64 year old retired mother in law...

There is a church in Florence Italy that contains the tombs of Michealangelo, Dante, El Greco, Galileo, Da Vinci, and a host of other's I have forgotten. When I stood in the cathedral, I wondered"how did all these people come to Florence and do so much in a single generation? What was it about...

Somehow I missed it. When Reagan was president we failed to reach the utopia Republican's promised because the House was still Democrat controlled. When the Republicans finally got control of all four government offices, the Executive, Senate, House, and Supreme Court we were supposed to see...

The OC Register had a brief article on page ten reporting that campaign donation dollars from American military members favour Obama over McCain six to one. This seems to agree with my highly unscientific polls showing that American military members want to get out of the war in Iraq.

Living in the Bay Area from 1982-2002 I never once penned a deal where a single family home could be purchased for less than the rental amount. Every SFR rental investment depended on having a large down payment to achieve positive cash flow. Once I factored in the realistic cost of maintenance...

Sorry this question is kind of vague, but how do neighborhoods become slums? I saw on the History Channel that in the 1890's Harlem was the high class neighborhood of New York with the largest mansions. There was a time when Compton was a nice place, and get this, when I was in elementary school...

How is it that in today's market, people are still buying cottages in Corona Del Mar and tearing them down to put up duplex's? The same thing still seems to be happening in other beach towns. People take a 1000-2000 sq ft cottage, tear it down, and put a three story 1800-3500 sq ft...