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Real Estate Investor Conference: BiggerPockets Style

Great writeup about the upcoming BiggerPockets Conference from blogger, Tom Royce.

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Improving Your Return Profile With A Simple Strategy

Tired of the volatility of equities? Nervous about owning bonds against the backdrop of historically low interest rates?

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BiggerPockets Rethinks the Real Estate Investment Conference

Great preview of the upcoming BiggerPockets conference from Commercial Real Estate Blogger, Joe Stampone.

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Big Funds See Rebirth for U.S. Housing

Hedge funds run by Caxton Associates LP, SAC Capital Advisors LP, Avenue Capital and Blackstone Group LP have been buying housing-related investments, betting on a rebound.

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Apple Can't Live Without This Stock

When Apple's (AAPL) engineers first dreamed up the concept of the iPad -- perhaps the most important computer product in a decade -they had to rethink every aspect of its design

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Advisers' No.1 worry for 2012? It's not losing clients

Financial advisers mostly concerned that sick-man Europe will infect U.S.; 'no near-term end in sight'

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Going Big in 2012 With BiggerPockets

A great review of BiggerPockets by Matt Rosen on his REI Blog.

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Retire In Half The Time With Dividend Growth Investing

Most everyone has heard of the “Rule of 72” to calculate how long it takes for an investment to double when compounding at a given rate of return.

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Note Brokers Back Office Landing Page

Inside information for note brokers and those looking into brokering notes as a business.

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Preliminary injunction - Dalbey Education Institute |

DENVER - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says a federal court has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Dalbey Education Institute from airing infomercials claiming consumers can get rich quick though the sale of promissory notes.

Tagged as: UNITED STATES, Legal proceedings, Law and order, denver, General News, colorado, North America

Russ Dalbey | losing in the cash flow business? |

By Craig Masters In 2007 a woman who had finally realized she had lost more than $19,000 to cash flow infomercial guru, Russ Dalbey, filed suit to try to recover her losses. The Colorado Attorney General joined the Federal Trade Commission inve...

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NAIOP: Bayonne Bridge Will Bode Well for NJ Recovery

BAYONNE, NJ-Despite competition from Pennsylvania s Leigh Valley, NAIOP s Michael McGuinness tells GlobeSt.com s Jacqueline Hlavenka that New Jersey s industrial sector will boom once the bridge improvements are complete.

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Amazon announces a legitimate iPad competitor for only $199

Introducing the Amazon Kindle Fire While the name is a little awkward, Amazon has announced a legitimate competitor to the iPad in a lower price point, us

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787 Dreamliner takes off at last. When can you jump aboard?

787 Dreamliner jet, Boeing's new fuel-sipping and passenger-friendly aircraft, left the US for Japan Tuesday, with executives of All Nippon Airways aboard. Commercial flights of the 787 Dreamliner start Oct. 28 – in Asia.

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Anxiety over perf shapes advisers loyalty to fund firms

Survey finds they are more likely to stick with managers that display consistency -- but time horizon getting shorter

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IRS offers a pass on misclassified indie contractors

Broker-dealers now have a low-cost way to clear their slate with the IRS if they have been misclassifying employees as independent contractors

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Surprise, People Loathe The New Facebook Changes

If Facebook rolled out a new feature that spit gold coins out of your USB port every time you liked a status, people would bitch about it. Many of the changes

Tagged as: Social media, updates, news feed, facebook, controversy

Credit Debt Relief | Credit Card Debt Solutions

In America we “enjoy” the ability to buy what we want now regardless of whether or not we have the money for it.

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Google+ now open to all, no invitations required

Google+ now open to all, sees major improvements Today, Google has announced that their social network, Google+ has made 91 improvements in its 90 day e

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Former LPL adviser: I was fired for running gun ad

Onetime Barron's hotshot adviser files suit against firm; also suing local regulators, including new NASAA president

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