I’ve noticed several news stories during the last few months that raise doubts about whether home ownership remains a path to building wealth.
Curtis Seltzer
Every so often I get fed up with having sellers play “hide the ball” with buyers, including me.
At the risk of over-simplifying to set up an argument, let’s assume there are two general approaches to investing in stocks, real estate and many...
My 24-year-old daughter, Molly, is a reporter/editor on the headline desk at Bloomberg News in New York.
We’ve been in the time of hay for more than a month. This is the hot center cut of summer, that slab of days when each breath breaks a sweat.
It used to be a lot easier to make money in timberland investments than it is today. The old days were better…at least for that.
Columnists occasionally use their print megaphones to convey a hidden message to their spouses and children. Sometimes, these messages are so subtly...
I was talking to an agricultural economist in the Midwest a couple of weeks ago, and he said something that caused my jaw to drop.
I often get phone calls from individuals looking for land-buying advice. One came in this week from Ben Lawden that left me puzzled.
Since the late 1980s, rural land -- pasture, cropland and timberland -- has been a safer, less volatile and more profitable investment than stocks.