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Obtainium for Fun & Profit
Obtainium is everywhere. People throw stuff out that’s perfectly usable. Often it’s there, on the street or a community web page, waiting to be picked up for free by anyone who can see the potential. Obtainium is environmentally justified. It conforms absolutely with the environmental mantra to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Creating obtainium is also […]
How I Became A Successful Writer For More Than 50 Years
How can you become a successful writer? My answer began more than 50 years ago. It was in 1968 when I got my first writing job. I was going to the American University in Washington, DC and there was a sign on the job board looking for a Capitol Hill correspondent. I was a journalism […]
Toxic Loans: The Coming Storm
It’s been a very good century for real estate, at least so far. According to the National Association of Realtors, the typical home that sold for $139,000 in 2000 was worth $208,700 in 2005. Not only have home values increased, unit volume has also grown. There were 5,152,000 existing home sales in 2000 compared with […]
April 15th: The Right Way To Figure Taxes
With April 15 now upon us a question lingers: Isn’t there a better way to deal with this annual effort to find receipts, stubs and numbers that balance? My interest in taxes is both economic and genetic. My late father was a CPA for more than 60 years and at age 90 or thereabouts was […]
Books by Peter G. Miller (OurBroker)
In response to many inquires, here is information regarding books by Peter G. Miller. More than 300,000 Miller books are in print. 1- The Common-Sense Mortgage: How to Cut the Cost of Home Ownership by $50,000 or More First published by Harper & Row in 1985, this book was widely considered the standard guide to real […]
What’s A Qualified Mortgage (QM)?
One of the better ideas to come out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was to create something called a “qualified residential mortgage.” You want to know about such financing because most lenders offer little else. Under Wall Street reform several federal agencies have worked out a definition of the term “qualified mortgage” or […]
Is The Dow A Good Measure of Stock Market Success?
Like oxygen, reports on the daily doings of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are everywhere. It’s the fastest way to check Wall Street’s pulse. It’s the one benchmark most likely to be quoted in the morning paper and the nightly news. There are 30 companies which comprise the DJIA, but not the same companies all the […]
The Story of America’s First Christmas Tree
Christmas trees now sparkle in millions of homes, but did you ever wonder how the tradition began? No doubt there are many stories regarding the start of this custom. So, as we do each year, here’s one we’d like to pass along. At first, celebrating Christmas in America — with or without a tree — […]
How Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Were Taken Over By The Government
In the summer of 2008 the federal government said at the height of the mortgage crisis that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had unfledged assets of $1.5 trillion. On September 7, 2008 the government announced that it was seizing control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A Few Weeks Later On September 7, […]
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Universal Healthcare: Does America Need A Second Bill of Rights?
When it comes to universal healthcare not too many people against it want to talk about Kyle Willis. Mr. Willis, age 24, died from a tooth infection. Why? According to WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, the unemployed and uninsured father and aspiring paralegal could afford either pain medication or antibiotics — but not both. His face swollen, […]
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