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Charlotte Katz Representing Buyers In Southwest Florida

Bonita Beach On our site you'll find knowledge and resources necessary for exploring some of the Southwest Florida real estate markets – the ones that I concentrate on.
You can learn about other cities along the Gulf coast and what they offer by doing some searches on the web. You may want to investigate Cape Coral, Ft. Myers, and east Naples. Then move north to Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Sarasota and even St. Petersburg.
Each city has its own natural beauty and ambience that is so unique to Florida, yet also offers its own special lifestyle that makes Florida such a desirable place to call home. Flowers In Bonita

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Money Smarts: Only accountability can reduce risk

All activities involving people have risk; humans make mistakes. Continue reading

Money Smarts: More regulations hurt the economy

The Obama administration is on track to become the biggest regulator in executive branch history. New or enhanced rules will be applied to all sorts of personal and business activities. For example, with Obamacare legislation getting passed by Congress, the entire US healthcare system is in for the imposition of a massive new regulatory structure. Additionally, financial reform, currently being debated by the US Senate, will impose new operating rules on the financial industry. Further, climate change legislation and concomitant new regulations will affect virtually every energy producer and user in the US. And those are just the industries. Continue reading

Gerald Kramer: Money Smarts … planes, blades and cell phones

Retail marketers have plenty of tricks to get you to buy merchandise. A sale, for example, attempts to get you into the store where you will hopefully buy other non sale items. Then there are the “valued customer cards” which are provided for free. Continue reading

GERALD KRAMER: Money Smarts – Definition of financial world’s derivatives

Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, is in the news these days because of some transactions undertaken with a client who had a bad feeling about the subprime mortgage market. The client thought that the market was ripe for a downward correction and wanted to place a bet on it happening. Continue reading

GERALD KRAMER: Money Smarts – Trashing the spending culture

There’s a strong argument for the cause of the economic meltdown, now commonly referred to as the “Great Recession,” being ourselves. In the years leading up to the crisis, Americans were on a debt tear. Continue reading

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