The car was built to compete with cheap Japanese imports taking over the American auto market, and only cost $2,000 ($12,000 in 2015 dollars).

Is that reference to the Japanese proverb: "Fall down seven times, stand up eight"?

Apparently there's a large community of us ex-pats investing in Japanese real estate.  

The assets of a restaurant trade really low.Equipment etc. goes for maybe 20 cents on the dollar when sold to a restaurant supply house.

The only type of real "investing" in real estate is to either be a lender or to own rentals (commercial or residential) a wholesaler acts like a day trader a fix and flipper is improving a house (or a stock or a company) and flipping it; its still trading and always risky.

I'm 22 years old I own my own small trucking company in Florida I built with cash NO credit my heart is there but I also a binary options trader = stock market I'm still learning fast but I like real estate cause I like helping veterans and old people get into homes also really insterest me in real estate is I want provide to nurse homes ....that's me I'm new so if anybody have questions

Takes 6-10 just to trade real estate!

I'm 25 years old and for work, I'm a trader for an asset manager in the area.

The great billionaire market trader Paul Tudor Jones talks about a 5:1 risk/reward ratio.

How it works is as follows, say on a US$100K investment:investor/lender converts CAN to US at today's rate $0.78 costs approx CAN$130K (with trader commissions)investor/lender then locks in to buy the CAN$130K back at today's rate, cost is generally 5% of amount or in this case would be $6500the forward contract is generally good for one year, so be sure to sell the property within that timeframe since if you do not fulfill the contract, your 5% option is forfeitedso let's say the CAN dollar goes to $0.85, then you'd need approx US$110K to repay the CAN $130K, but with the forward you are locked in at the $0.78 so only the original US$100KThe only downside is that the FX trader commissions are approx $0.005 on both the buy/sell transaction so you're down a full cent on the trade.