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[QUOTE=GutsyGibbon;721998] Healthcare, education, and jobs. We need to push forward with progressive policies, tax the billionaires, and use that to make public colleges free of tuition, extend medicare slowly to cover more people. [/QUOTE] Can any govt achieve this? Billionaires can get their way ...

[QUOTE=SAPPRO;721969]Real estate investors rarely walk away when it is not beneficial to them since there is no need or emotion attached to it unlike the primary home owners. Most of the short sale/ foreclosures by investors are usually the result of excessive equity pull-outs - some intentional and ...

[QUOTE=layman;721942]US policy towards China is dictated by bureaucrats. Everybody in US be it politicians, or bureaucrats see China as a rival and threat. So, no administration will be lenient towards China. Trump's trade deal is a humbug. US trade deficit is at all time high [URL]https://qz.com ...

Florida real estate took a beating in 2008-2012. Townhouses and single family homes that were 300k were sold for 80k. People flew over the weekend to shop and pick up rental properties in Orlando and other beach destinations. America real estate feels a little too unpredictable, that too for a span ...

[QUOTE=shriji;721924]Don't know why BJP supporters feel Biden/Harris election is a negative for India.. India is a non-event for the new Administration, there are so many other priorities. India will largely be ignored, and perhaps the Trump sanctions will be removed after some time ( a net positive ...

I have a rollover IRA started in March 2006 and to date it shows 9.5% annually. Didn't contribute a penny after rolling over into this, only dividend reinvestment. We bought the townhouse also at the same time which was peak for RE and it underperformed compared to this. 2006 was bad enough to enter ...

In our own friends circle who are in 40's, the only ones that quit work are the ones in commercial and/or residential real estate. Yes, with a good accountant you can manage few things that might help with aca and school fees. At the point where we are in life have net worth but have to work to have ...

[QUOTE=RRS;721838] Added later: My spouse had the grand idea of retiring to Texas after our retirement. But our kids will be in CA mostly (or atleast till we live) due to their ultra-liberal attitude. They will strongly discourage us going to a Red state like TX in our retirement : )[/QUOTE] It is ...

[QUOTE=venkat786;674750][COLOR=#333333]> BTW, how much money does one need to retire at age 38 in USA? If you take out college expenses & health care costs - you just need a MAX of 40k per year. just a ball park estimate if you live in frugal lifestyle.[/COLOR][/QUOTE] 40k seems too low, unless you ...

[QUOTE=techynt;674292]Slight correction: real estate [B]was [/B]the best investment. If Anyone invested their USD into RE, in India, even in 2011, they would be sitting on huge loss. And it may go on like that for couple more years since govt wants to mass manufacture affordable homes.[/QUOTE] Real ...