Apparently, James / Jim Rickards has been letting anyone who will listen know that the "Global Elite" have been conspiring for years to undermine the strength of the US, amongst other things.

I've had some commercial lenders also look at my global debt service coverage ratio, but they don't reduce the income by 25% so my numbers are much better when a commercial underwriter is evaluating me than for a conventional loan.

With the risk of oversimplifying, the underwriters set the "global" rule.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43946055/ns/business-us_...https://www.cnbc.com/id/44855323Oh wait, that is from 2011....I got it nowhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2012/...https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/recessio...Shoot...my bad, those are from 2013.....Got it now, definitive proofhttp://fortune.com/2014/10/28/global-recession-us-...https://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2014/12/2...Rats...that was my 2015 folderJust stop....you cant predict the business cycles.   

The DTI for this portion alone equals 93.33% which moves the global DTI against your favor.

Mike Hurney My degree is in nutrition and my career goal is to be involved in global health research and field work.

Never forget that, for better or for worse, the US consumes 25% of everything on this planet, yet only contains 4% of the global population.

It also might be wise to wait a few months while paying down debt to see if this global trade war hammering the stock market will spell the end of appreciating real estate in the USA in 2018.It does not matter how much you are sending in on your student loan. 

The global flexibility provided by Bitcoin is grossly under appreciated. 

When the event happens, scaling to the point of leaving the day job to managing a decent portfolio of buy hold rentals for consistent passive income.My current line of work is in the coffee industry, managing and developing teams globally for a specialty coffee company and more or less living on the road as I help launch cafes from New York to Kyoto.