. $4.5 billion has been invested to revitalize KC Downtown.

If you have a billion dollars that you HAVE to spend, you tend to overpay.

So the 250 Billion in interest actually pays your Social Security and many base cash flow for retirement and 401k accounts.

Saw that 1.5 billion tickets have been bought.

A personal friend of mine Brian Rodgers is a world wide authority on marketing.He has written countless copy and campaigns for businesses everywhere along with selling over 1 billion in real estate and he is in his 30's like me.

Here is a post from Jonas Prising, the CEO of the ManpowerGroup (workforce agency, a $19 Billion business - yes with a "B") about Milwaukee. 

My experience has been small community banks (typically under $1 billion in assets) are more suited to tailoring products to fit the needs of their communities.Hope this helps.

The average fund at Blackstone has a commitment of over a billion so that would be a crazy amount of small properties to flip.

The best notes in this business come directly from multi-billion dollar hedge funds and banks, and believe me they are doing their research on you before they decide to offer you a tape of loans. 

Approximately 13.5 million households are "renters by necessity".Workforce housing (low/median earners) has brought in $375 billion in investment over the last five years.More than 51% of the total for all multifamily asset classes.Despite this investment, only a "small" amount of workforce housing has been built in the last 10 years, with investors usually opting for luxury rentals.