LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS & PASSIVE INCOME

There won’t be too many posts for the next 4 weeks. I’m currently travelling in India this week. On Sunday I leaving for Bali. After that I’m going to Angor Vat, Cambodia, Krabi in Thailand and then Singapore.

India is currently booming. The GDP growth for the last quarter was 9.2% annualized. The equity markets are at an all time high. Property prices are booming as well. I bought an pre-construction apartment here several months ago and its up already 40%, although its appreciation will probably slow down to reasonable levels now, prices have become incredibly expensive.

• Forecasting Tools Came across this website called Forecast.org.They have a 6 month forecast[into the future] for all financial data including stock market indices, currency conversion rates, interest rates, commodity prices, etc. I don't expect them to be very accurate [coz if they were they'd trade their data on the futures option market......
• Pictures of An Investment Property After spending the past 12 months lightening my holdings, I currently have 5 investment properties left. 3 of them are in Salt Lake City and 2 are in Indianapolis.Of the ones in SLC, two are located in Saratoga Springs with spectacular (spectacular to Californians who are used to "desert views"......
• Buying Pre-construction Properties In Baja Mexico I went on a "buying tour" yesterday to Baja Mexico. We first stopped at the new Trump towers in Tijuana where they hadn't yet broken ground. They were selling condos for around $700-$800 per sq ft. But they were on the coast with pretty ok views. The only problem was......

• Prosper Updating Forum? I received an email from a regular reader (chrisfs)...  He let me know about this late last week, but due to my blog problems I have waited til now to post it... The screen he is talking about can be found here.  It may or may not point to the......
• Getting back on track with my IRA I want to fully fund my IRA this year, but I've kind of been slacking. I started off the year right -- making regular investments each month, but then somehow it kind of dropped off my radar. I think I got too caught up in buying single stocks in my......
• Lloyds to lay off another 5,000 Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 5,000 more jobs by the end of next year as it continues to reduce overlap following its merger with HBOS last year. While almost half of these posts are among staff, 2,600 permanent jobs would be lost. The union Unite accused the bank......

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