Covid-19, never ending government mandated eviction bans, local governments hostile to landlord rights, rent strikes, now income property owners can add increased risk of war

Who says the eviction ban has to end sometime?  Certainly not Democrats as they pull out all the stops to renew the nationwide ban on

Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”  Sadly, this dictum has been lost on:  Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen and much

Just so there is no doubt about where we stand on the inflation issue, I wish to reiterate that I believe the Fed is wrong

We have been talking ad nauseum about the current asset bubble.  Jeremy Grantham, noted market historian and co-founder of the Boston investment firm, GMO describes

Now that inflation is here and the Federal Reserve has pledged to keep the pedal to the metal and let it rise, income property owners

A “gotcha moment” clearly has something in common with a “Eureka moment” in terms of the flash of insight or understanding.  We have been telling

It should be obvious to all and sundry that the United States is now reorganizing itself into two Americas – blue and red.  Even though

We have been warning investors for some time now regarding the inevitability of inflation. This is the direct result of a decade or more of

With eCommerce being one of the few winners to emerge from the pandemic and attendant lockdown, there has been a significant increase of interest and

In our previous blog we waxed eloquent regarding progressively governed cities and states endless cycle of; policy failure, scapegoating and higher taxes.  Unfortunately, this toxic

Coming hard on the heals of the biggest global economic shock in recent memory, blue state governments are blithely walking toward the cliff’s edge, seemingly

March 8, 2021, Robert S. Smith: It’s finally here, that retrograde shibboleth our modern masters of the universe, Jerome Powell and Janet Yellen assured us

February 10, 2021 Robert S. Smith Back in 2008 when the single family home market collapsed and the associated CMBS (Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities) meltdown

February 17, 2021 Robert S. Smith I have a confession to make; I’m a bibliophile.  For those of you not as enamored of reading as