He looked at nearly a century's worth of day-to-day moves on Wall Street and 14 other stock markets around the world, from England to Japan to Australia.He found that if you missed the 10 best days you missed out on the majority of the gains.

Several of our clients used Checkbook IRA to invest overseas, particularly in India, South America, Mexico, Canada and Japan. 

As to the issue of affordable rents, in other parts of the world, like Japan, living spaces went from renting by the room to renting by the bed.

We all know Japan is hovering around 0% growth.

take a look at stats college graduates who are educated in america are going to korea, japan, china for work.....!!

Let me also remind you that, that war in the pacific ended up with two nuclear bomb being dropped on Japan.

He donated one to the collage so they could work on it creating affordable space.. those work because you can stack them.. google some of the container home developments in Europe pretty interesting..Next we will have little cocoon type accommodations like japan..

If/when there is a recession, I think there is a decent chance we could see prolonged deflation much like Japan ... the Fed will try to correct this, but as stated their efforts have been fruitless and even if they use helicopter Ben's methods they still may be powerless to do a damn thing about it .... this is important because the model of maximizing leverage to acquire RE is predicated on the assumption that there will be price and rent inflation, forever and ever, amen.

and if Japan ever comes back like in the 90s when I had my land and timber company and was exporting to Japan.. those numbers go WAY up .. it was the ULTIMATE BRRR you think that Is cool with rental properties.  

Tyler,I'm currently on the back end of a ski trip in Japan but I'd love to connect with you in early February once I'm back.