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Today is the first in a four part mini-series on Industrial Real Estate across the US. The folks at Marcus & Millichap recently published 36 submarket reports across the US focusing on Industrial Real Estate. Today we are concentrating on six markets in the Southeast. ----------- ...  Show more

On today’s show, we’re examining the Japanese yen carry trade and why its possible unwinding should be of interest to real estate investors thousands of miles away from Tokyo.A carry trade sounds complicated, but the basic idea is simple. An investor borrows money in a currency w ...  Show more

There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions to the national debt. They claim that all the new spending will be worth it in the end because we will supercharge economic growth. This fanta ...  Show more

Kent Smetters, Wharton Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Faculty Director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, explains the economic realities behind the United States’ $38 trillion national debt, discussing options for increasing revenue, reforming entitlements, ...  Show more

The US debt ceiling is all anyone in Washington (and increasingly elsewhere) can talk about these days. For months, politicians have been in a stalemate triggered by Republican demands for spending cuts as the price for paying America's debts. With next week seen as the point at ...  Show more

A follow-up to the episode celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the day Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, guest George Gammon is in the studio to discuss how creating unlimited amounts of money has created “monetary heroin.” George Gammon, a former entrepreneur, turned ...  Show more