Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman

Matthew Quirk is the author of the best-selling book,"The 500" and author of the new book on the Fed, "The Directive," which centers on a conspiracy plot at the Federal Reserve. Quirk joins the podcast to break down how realistic this plot could be today. 

 

Quirk spent a year working with red team security experts, hackers, lockpickers, social engineers, and sources inside the Fed to map out what a true-to-life 21st century heist would look like at the most powerful bank in capitalism. He shares the loopholes within the Fed's security system and gives his guestimate on the best chance someone has in hacking the Fed.

 

Find out more about Matthew Quirk at www.matthewquirk.com.

 

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Jason Hartman talks with Alex about the most landlord friendly areas to invest, specific properties an excellent cash flow market with the following highlights:

 

- #1 Place to Live in the United States (Cities under 1,000,000 in population), Kiplinger Magazine July 2013

 

- Top Ten Smaller Markets in the South for Foreign Investment, Southern Business Development

- No Real Estate Boom or Bust, thus earned recognition of 10 strongest Real Estate Market in 2009, Forbes.com

- 2nd Most Diverse Economy, Moody’s Investors Service

- 2nd Cleanest City in the U.S., Forbes Magazine, 2011

- 22nd out of 361 metropolitan areas as best places for business, Forbes magazine, 2005

- 7th best metropolitan economy in the United States, Brookings Institution, 2009 

Little Rock Industry and Business - Major employers :

  • State Government 
  • 2 Major Universities 
  • Twenty-eight (28) Fortune 500 companies 
  • Little Rock Air Force Base 
  • Healthcare (Very large job base from hospitals, insurance and manufacturing ) 
  • Dassault Falcon Jet Corp 
  • Verizon 
  • Caterpillar 
  • IT company Acxiom 
  • Windstream 
  • Stephens Inc (Largest Investment Bank not located in NY) 
  • L’Oreal , LM Wind Power (North America), Dillard’s 

 

 

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William D. Cohan is a columnist for Bloomberg View and Vanity Fair and author of the new book, "The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities." He previously authored, "The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co." and "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street."

 

Cohan characterizes the state of the American university system and talks about the elitist bad-boy attitude that plagues many campuses across the nation. So many people who fit the stereotype he describes end up on Wall Street. 

 

William D. Cohan is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street: Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World; House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street; and The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co., which won the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and writes a weekly column for Bloomberg View.  

 

Mr. Cohan also writes for the Financial Times, Bloomberg Business Week, The Atlantic, Art News, the Irish Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times Magazine. He appears regularly on MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, Current TV, and the BBC. He has also been a guest on the Charlie Rose Show and the News Hour.  

 

Over the course of 17 years Mr. Cohan was a senior Wall Street Mergers & Acquisitions investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase. He is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism, and the Columbia Graduate School of Business.

 

Read William D. Cohan's work on Bloomberg View at www.bloombergview.com

 

Visit his work on Vanity Fair at www.vanityfair.com.

 

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