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High Yields from Two Top Mortgage REITs

The commercial real estate market, in particular, enjoyed strong sales volumes in the past few years. In fact, commercial property […]

Financing African cities: What is the role of land value capture?

This week, December 10-14, marks the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) week. This year’s conference is under the […]

Why Cryptocurrencies Keep Bouncing Back

Late Saturday, bitcoin traded near $15,600 according to Coindesk. About 12 hours later it traded around $12,900, a drop of […]

$63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist, $63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization If you add up all the money […]

Naming Your Business: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

If you’re launching a new venture, there’s already enough pressure. The reality is that most businesses end as failures, and […]

Visualizing a Rapidly Changing Global Diet

By 2050, there will be two billion more mouths to feed than today. The increase in food supply required to […]

The Stock Motifs that are Up Over 20%

If you are not familiar with motifs, they are similar to Exchange Traded Funds, except they are created by investors. […]

Why This May Be the Perfect Time to Chase Warren Buffett’s Largest Stock Picks

Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) was an $18.0 billion stake, and like Amex the size of this share count has been […]

Most Valuable U.S. Companies Over 100 Years

How much does the business world shift in a century? Today’s visualization comes from HowMuch.net, and it uses Forbes data […]

How to Invest in Bitcoin Using Stocks

Over the past few months there has been an increased wave of euphoria surrounding cryptocurrencies, the most notable of which […]