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Confusion abounds for retirement investors.  World economies are on the verge of falling into the abyss.  Dark clouds are on the horizon.  And, at home in the U.S., the stock market gyrates wildly.

In early October, an incident on Wall Street scared the daylights out of everybody.  According to Reuters News Service “in less than one hour the stock market surged by 4 percent — for no apparent reason.  It occurred at a speed that frightens many, from experienced hedge-fund managers to mom-and-pop investors, and it’s a big reason many are staying away from the market”.

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The Dow is up. The Dow is down. Round and round goes the wheel. Where it will stop, nobody knows.

Many retirement investors are waiting for the market to go back up before setting up a Self Directed IRA or 401(k) to invest into real estate.  They feel as though they need to recoup some of their “losses” due to market volatility in recent weeks. What’s interesting is that on Sept. 10, 2010 the Dow was at 10,462 and on Sept. 9, 2011 it was at 10,992.  That’s a 5% gain.

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“The Perfect Storm” that is now battering the United States is not a hurricane.  No, it’s far more sinister and far more destructive than a mere weather phenomena.

This is a man-made storm.  It’s one that had been brewing for years and finally reached it’s peak in 2008 with the economic meltdown and collapse of the housing market.
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More and more wealthy investors are moving away from the stock market in fear of further loss because of volatility, as documented by recent articles in the Wall Street Journal.

Interestingly, when asked where they are putting their money, the answer was “cash and real estate”. In keeping with this investment direction, we have compiled a list of the Top 10 Best Real Estate markets for investment of retirement funds.

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At the moment global stock exchanges and economies are…VOLATILE.

Anyone who is paying attention would be able to see that everything around us is unstable and unpredictable. No one likes to be off-balance and unsure of who or what to trust. But, that IS the reality of our current economic circumstance and it’s not going to change anytime soon.

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Have the stock market declines caught you off guard? They shouldn’t have. After all the only thing that has kept the market going up in the last year is government stimulus money and the “herd mentality” that I talked about in my last blog.

Now that the debt ceiling talks are over and there’s no good news to be found anywhere, the traders on Wall Street are backing off and the smart money is looking elsewhere to invest. As of this moment, 08/04/11, the Dow is down 513 points.

In mid-day trading today, the widely respected Aden sisters, prominent technical analysts, emailed clients and advised them to sell all equities and keep the proceeds in dollars right now. (Click here to read the article: Market Watch/Panic)

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We all crave simple solutions to life’s vexing problems.

Would you rather choose from only 6 kinds of toothpaste or 120. Or, how about an insurance policy? Choosing from say 4 different types would be nice, but 350 different variations? And, there are thousands of everyday examples like this that, when considered together, create the most complex civilization every known to mankind.

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