Sitting quietly in the dark and taking stock of where we are is a lot harder - takes discipline.In music, we have notes and we have rests. 

Oh I remember where I heard this particular stock market cycle theory before, I just had to google "17.6 year stock cycle" looks like it has a lot of shelf life with many different prognosticators. 

Some call this diversification.Ranchinskiy Vasily: there are many private money banks/opportunities for investors to pool their money to lend to investors (whether they be real estate investors, stock market investors or business investors). 

However, for those of us who invest a long ways outside a major metropolitan area, such companies are nonexistent.Control is a major factor in our decision to invest in RE instead of stocks, mutual funds, etc.

Does the PMI go towards the principle of the loan or is it just a fee that is charged on top of interest?

I have a mix of some NPR programs, Slate podcasts and one for stock investing.

Individual Private Investors, commonly referred to as "Angel Investors" are generally interested in receiving higher returns on their investments than they can make through "traditional" means such as mutual funds or on the stock market.

My father is a vascular surgeon and he has had decent success in both the stock market and real estate on Hilton Head island.

It has been said that if you get your stock tips from the front page of the paper, you’re too late.

- heck I rode their stock down (shorting) from $14, but now I am long at $0.61 (losing a bit of money there ;))Their deposits are down to $18 bil right now and shrinking.