I bought a house last month. I had been a long-time advocate of renting rather than buying, so what drove me to buy a house now? Has the time come to buy a house as an inflation hedge? Buying a house should be a matter of risk, not price.

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If you are a wealth sustainer, you should not be drawn into the market simply because it has gone up. Instead, take a step back, look at the market dynamics and see what risks you can afford to take.

Merk Sustainable Wealth – Countdown and Preview on FoxBusiness TV

Axel Merk tells Fox Business TV that we may indeed be once again in bubble territory.

The conventional wisdom states that paying rent is like throwing money away, whereas buying a home builds equity. Let’s re-examine this.

Over the weekend, a friend of mine sighed in resignation: “Given that my stock portfolio is down 40% and the real estate market in my area is down ‘only’ 20%, we would have been better off buying a house last year.”While the numbers she quoted may be a fairly accurate reflection of the situation in the San Francisco Bay Area, her conclusion could not be further from the truth. Had she bought a house last year – unless she paid cash – she would be much worse off than she currently is.