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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice * ZeroHedge - Canada's Housing Bubble Explodes As Its Biggest Mortgage Lender Crashes Most In History - Tyler Durden 4/27 * "Call it Canada's 'New Century' moment." * "We first introduced readers to the company we said was the '
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If you were to read only one thing… WSJ - Another Bubble Bursts in Hong Kong - Jacky Wong 4/25 * This one is the article in its entirety. * "Hong Kong’s stock market is becoming a byword for dangerous bubble-blowing." * "The latest stock to burst is Fullshare
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If you were to read only one thing… WSJ - 'Apartheid Without the Racism': How China Keeps Rural Folks Down - Mark Magnier 4/24 * "An epic property boom restricted to city dwellers has opened a wealth gap that continues to widen in China, setting back a state campaign
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice FT - Venezuela's broken system cannot fix itself - Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez 4/23 FT - Silicon Valley 'superstars' risk a populist backlash - Rana Foroohar 4/23 * "…a spate of research shows that it is not trade or rapacious bankers but technology that
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice A Wealth of Common Sense: Urgent vs. Important & the Power of Small Wins - Ben Carlson 4/20 Real Estate LAT - When car ownership fades, this parking garage will be ready for its next life - Roger Vincent 4/16 Finance WSJ - Grab Your Pitchforks, America,
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice FT - China faces a tough fight to escape its debt trap - Martin Wolf 4/11 Real Estate WSJ - Daily Shot: Households with Negative Equity 4/17 Finance NYT - Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined - Landon Thomas Jr. 4/14 * "In the last
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Happy Easter! Real Estate FT - Chinese buyers fuel Brooklyn real estate boom - Rana Foroohar 4/16 * "…World property markets have become totally disconnected from national economies. There has been a massive housing recovery in the US since 2008, but over half of all the gains have accrued to a
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice * Mauldin Economics - The Influence of Affluence - Marc Faber 4/12 Markets / Economy WSJ - Inflation Is Back, But Don't Worry - Steven Russolillo 4/12 * "Good news: Inflation just topped a key milestone. Even better news: It doesn't look poised to zoom
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Real Estate WSJ - Teachers, Police Priced Out of America's Big Metro Areas - Laura Kusisto 4/12 * "Rising home prices are putting America's largest metropolitan areas out of reach for teachers, police officers and other big slices of the U.S. workforce." * "In all,
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice FT - When it comes to investing, human stupidity beats AI - Miles Johnson 4/10 * "Since their inception, financial markets have been driven by greed and fear. No matter how advanced technology becomes, human nature isn't changing. Or as billionaire Carl Icahn has
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If you were to read only one thing… The US college debt bubble is becoming dangerous. Rana Foroohar. Financial Times. 9 Apr. 2017. "Rapid run-ups in debt are the single biggest predictor of market trouble. So it is worth noting that over the past 10 years the amount
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Perspective Economist - Free exchange: How Chavez and Maduro have impoverished Venezuela 4/6 "It is hard to convey the severity of Venezuela's unfolding crisis. Its extent is astounding: the economy shrank by 10% last year, and will be 23% smaller than in 2013 by the end of