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The Demand For Coal Heats Up |
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The Pitfalls Of Aggressive Underwriting |
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1st Quarter 2007 Industrial Real Estate
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1st Quarter 2007 Natural Gas |
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1st Quarter 2007 Crude Oil |
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What Your Golf Swing Says About Your
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I am proud to introduce our first quarterly e-newsletter. We have been overwhelmed with your encouragement to provide additional informational communications, along with industry news, and thought this would be an appropriate forum. I hope you enjoy it and find it a useful publication.
The first half of '07 has been both exciting and very busy for Madison
Capital Investments, LLC. We have successfully made the transition to our
new Broker/Dealer, Welton Street of Denver, CO.
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Everyday someone succeeds with a 1031 Exchange. Here's just one:
Mr. Lee's Success
We recently had the privilege of helping a client both
satisfy another 1031 exchange and achieve his financial goals. Our
client, Mr. Lee, owns several properties in Hawaii and on the mainland.
As he is nearing retirement and wants to simplify his life, he has been
looking at transitioning his real estate holdings into more passive
investments providing monthly cash flow. Read
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INFLATION - ADJUSTED PRICE FOR GASOLINE |
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The average price of a gallon of gasoline was
$1.42 in March 1981. That price is equal to $3.292 a gallon in today's
dollars after adjusting for inflation, a record that was almost broken on
5/27/07. (i.e., the Thursday before Memorial Day) when the average price of
a gallon of gasoline reached $3.227
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The USA is the #1
consumer of oil in the world, using 20.7 million barrels a day or 25% of
all the oil used globally. The next 5 countries on the consumption list
(China, Japan, Russia, Germany and India) collectively use less oil than
the USA (Source: International
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BARRELS INTO GALLONS |
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Our country's usage of oil is equal to 2.9
gallons consumed every day for each of our nation's 302 million citizens.
Americans consume 13 times more oil each day when compared to the average
Chinese citizen (Source: BTN Research,
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(Recommended Reading Titles)
The Oil Factor
by Stephen Leeb
& Donna Leeb
www.amazon.com
The Party's Over
by Richard
Heinberg
www.amazon.com
The Tax Free Exchange Loophole
by Jack Cummings
www.amazon.com |
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Problems are the
price of progress.
Don't bring me anything but trouble.
Good news weakens me.
~ Charles F. Kettering |
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The Demand For Coal Heats Up
Surging oil prices have fueled calls for the United States to develop
new sources of affordable and secure domestic energy.
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Price Is
On The Rise
In the past year, crude oil prices have risen dramatically; driven by
strong global demand, limited spare oil production capacity, and reduced
supply as a result of recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico region.
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Last 12 Months CRUDE OIL RATES |
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June 1, 2006 - June
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WTRG Economics ©2007
www.wtrg.com
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Last 12 Months NATURAL GAS RATES |
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WTRG Economics ©2007
www.wtrg.com
(479) 293-4081 |
The Pitfalls Of
Aggressive Underwriting
by Madison Capital Investments
The continued reliance on property price appreciation to obtain a
positive cash flow is the primary cause for increased defaults of the
most recent crop of loans marked for commercial mortgage-backed
securities (CMBS). Aggressive underwriting is to blame. (Read
More) |
Source: Real Estate Research Corp.
When Exercise is Not
Exercise
by Simon Evans
One
of the biggest reasons we are getting so fat is no secret, we eat more
calories than we burn. (Read More) |
