3 reasons the Dow doesn’t deserve to be at 17,000 Opinion: The bull market in stocks is running for all the wrong reasons – MarketWatch 06-10-14

Salient to Investors: David Weidner writes: Five years into a slow paced economic recovery is good reason to be buying stocks, because rapidly growing economies usually goes belly up as quickly as they rise. The stock market always leads the economy but a 155% rise in the Dow since 2009

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Trailer Parks Lure Wall Street Investors Looking for Double-Wide Returns – Bloomberg 04-10-14

Salient to Investors: Investors are getting rich renting the concrete pads and surrounding dirt on which residents park their homes. JLT & Associates say rents nationwide average $390 per pad per month. Many US counties have banned or discouraged construction of new trailer parks because the inhabitants are poor, pay little in

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Blackstone’s Home Buying Binge Ends as Prices Surge: Mortgages – Bloomberg 03-13-14

Salient to Investors: Jonathan Gray at Blackstone said:   The institutional buying wave has passed and Blackstone’s acquisition pace has declined 70 percent from its peak last year Blackstone has narrowed most of its purchasing to Seattle, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando and Tampa. Institutional buyers are tapering their buying and are

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