The Billboard and Outdoor Advertising Global Report 2023 also states that in the short-term, the Russia-Ukraine War disrupted the chances of global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, hence the market-wide 3.6% CAGR for 2023 and the expected 2.9% in 2027.

Banks are not geared toward real estate investors and will usually do a "global cash flow", meaning they will look at all of your income sources and debt payments from all areas of your life...business and personal.

For fun I compared the Houston area Housing Index to the global crude prices.

They're going up because there's so much money sloshing around in the global pool of liquid wealth (due to global wealth inequality, but that's a different discussion) that it's simply being willed up by the continued investments.

Now... the real cost of real foods went up around 23% over the last 5 years, odd are with global warming and the wacky weather it brings the cost of foods are going to keep going up significantly in the next 40 years and beyond (yeah every one wants to pretend global warming is a myth as island nations are disappearing and New York is building floating real estate today to contend with rising oceans by 2020, and all those folks making a fuss over GMO food are not going to be to high and mighty to eat a mushroom that taste like steak when beef goes up to $25 a lb) so that whole dafy "Lump Sum" thing with retirement accounts don't account for that.

My strategic reason for doing so is to diversify my portfolio beyond global publicly-traded businesses.For example, I have a small amount of money invested on CNote, which pays a 2.5% return from lending money to CDFIs (https://www.cdfifund.gov/), and Calvert Impact Capital, which pays me a 1% return on my investment.I use a donor-advised fund to make anonymous donations to local 501(c)(3) charities because I live in the area and want to "invest" in the quality-of-life of my community.

I was in AWE of how J laid out step by step how to channel my anger away from Semi-Truck Drivers and Global Warming Activists into more constructive things like changing FHA Guidelines and Quantitative Easing.I couldn't get enough.

My Background:* Undergrad in Finance and Masters in Global Investments* 6 Years with Department of Defense Finance* 5 Years with the Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)* Cert.

We're not talking about the global world, we're talking about the choice between the ones mentioned using REI. 

When the shoddy work the contractor performs with bubble gum and duct tape doesn't hold, the same contractor gets sent again to generate another fee.