One could argue that the fed could just increase interest rates to slow inflation but that would be incredibly difficult because private and public sector debt would become more expensive creating a recession if not depression.

Since my husband is a piano bar entertainer for a major cruise line (since 2004) and I have relatives in Australia, we travel worldwide too.

Investment in the real estate sector will be somewhat stagnant.

It's spread out in different sectors.

Investors worldwide watched $30 trillion of stock market equity disappear in the past year while home prices have cratered by better than 25%.

& H. have decades of experience building the equipment, running a successful worldwide operation.

With low oil over the last few years, exploration has significantly decreased worldwide and there are predictions of an oil shortage by as soon as 2020 http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/ener...Anchorage is slightly less dependent on oil as the state is with strong, rapidly growing, employment in the medical field and a large army and air force base.

They typically have a particular strategy, such as municipal bonds, large cap stocks, small cap stocks, certain sectors of business, etc.

While I went the MBA track early on then into the Private Equity sector, I think with you education you'll easily make it in the Financial sector at some level.

Both in the same 'market', but different sectors/ classes and property types.