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The best way to invest money

In Canada, farmland investment has been quite popular for a while. This should catch on in the US soon too. Of course, you do need a certain minimum funding to get into this, typically about $100,000. You can buy a dozen acres of farmland, lease it out to those who till the land, and collect your $5000 royalty check every year. And since land is always in demand, you could always sell it to get your money back, and then some.

Why, in the last 20 years, land prices around the corn belt have risen about 8% every year. But land prices do fall, and there is no real guarantee. In Iowa, land prices frequently lose about half their value once every five years or so, and rise up to gain a quarter in the following years. But there is a certain satisfaction involved in making your money tilling the land, even if by remote control.

Better Ways Exist to Invest Money?

Managed commodity-futures funds offer some really good ways to invest money. And they're pretty exotic too. What they do is they buy futures on whatever they think is going to be hot in coming years, livestock, grain, or anything. And they hope that that product comes to be in demand. It doesn't take much money to bet on the future in this way, and so many people could crowd towards this soon. But the proof of the pudding in the best way to invest money, who knows?

Investors seem to be making a lot of money this year on this kind of investment. You don't go to an ordinary stockbroker, you go to a commodities trading advisor for this. Your broker or advisor will charge something like a fifth of whatever you make. These used to be just for the big investors until recently. But hedge fund sponsors are now bringing the market to you and me. You can get in with $5000.

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Investing Money

It may actually be time to get out there and find new ways to invest money; the traditional avenues haven't really been very kind to us lately. The best we can do now, is to read up.

If you are thinking about choosing a business university, there are a whole bunch of things to consider. Unlike public or private schools, these kinds of schools are in business to make profits. That’s the main focus. There is an extraordinary focus on getting you to sign up for federal loan programs, because the government pays your (very high) tuition.

Should you quit, they still get paid. Kind of like free money to them. So in talking to business universities, remember you are not a student you are a consumer, just as if you were going into a department store, or more closely, an automobile dealership.