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We hate to sound like a broken record, but when the markets get 'hairy' and you want to just toss in the towel on investing and instead bury your funds in the backyard--DON'T.We have mentioned many times that a safer alternative during these rocky times is something that might resemble our 2014/2015 Short/Medium Duration Portfolio.This portfolio has returned 5.2% in…

July 7, 2015  10:30 pmWe had a wild ride down and then up in U.S. stocks today and it looks like we may have a wild one again tomorrow (Wednesday).The Shanghai Composite has been off as much as 8% tonight--directionally no surprise, but the size of the move is a bit startling. Last weekend we were doing some reading on…

July 7, 2015   4:30 pmFollowing through on our plans to invest when special bargains present themselves we have doubled our portfolio position in REIT Independence Realty Trust (ticker:IRT).IRT is a apartment REIT which came public approximately 2 years ago and had 8 buildings and quarterly revenue of $4.7 million. Now they are up to 30 buildings and had quarterly…

July 6, 2015   11 pmWay back - over a year ago we moved out of our investments in the MLP Upstream arena--and we know a lot of our readers followed us out-- a move that contributed (by avoiding losses) to super gains last year.  We have cautioned about getting carried away trying to pick bottoms in the upstream companies…

July 5, 2015    9 pmA couple weeks ago the option of the Greek people directly deciding the direction of the financial negotiations with their creditors wasn't even an option. In hindsight they elected a government who committed to end the citizens pain and suffering (somehow--someway) so it shouldn't be a surprise that they have voted to reject the most…