Welcome back!The “make money” formula is really very simple, yet some of the biggest banks in the world got it wrong because they left out one essential ingredient. 
What is the formula and what essential element did the failed and bailed out banks leave out? 

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The global financial crisis has a money-making silver lining for entrepreneurs.   
The idea of a “silver lining” comes from the old proverb, “Every cloud has a silver lining.”  The proverb looks for some unexpected good outcome following some bad event.
For many entrepreneurs, business owners, real estate investors, and wage earners, the financial crisis is all too [...]

The banking crisis raises many questions. 
Do you wonder how banks that claimed to hold billions of dollars in real estate mortgage assets could go broke? 
And most importantly, how did a banking crisis involving mortgages turn into a global financial crisis that affects all of us? 

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The financial crisis fills the news. Each day, we hear about more billions for stimulus packages to banks “too big to fail.”  We also hear dire warnings about the collapse of major corporations, such as the Big Three auto makers in the United States. The crisis is real, as it spreads throughout our entire economic [...]

Leverage creates wealth. This has been the promise behind the real estate boom. Now that the boom has gone bust, what is the role of leverage in the current financial crisis?
Greed is blamed for much of the economic crisis currently facing us. But blaming greed misses the real point. Greed needs a mechanism—a tool—to put [...]