Investing Quote by Douglas Rushkoff

“Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreading of investment risks through the creation of derivative markets,…

— David Harvey

“Real estate is not a transaction; it is transformation.”

— Olawale Daniel

“Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.”

— Steven Magee

“We make our house a home, but the sooner the mortgage is paid off, the sooner it truly turns into our own home.”

— Celso Cukierkorn

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“The creation of the mortgage bond market, a decade earlier, had extended Wall Street into a place it had never before been: the debts…

— Michael Lewis

“So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And to whom were these bundles of unrecognizably mashed-up mortgages ultimately sold? Quite often, to you and me. Our pension funds, municipalities, and money-market…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“With Money we bought the House, with Love we made it our Home!”

— Barkha Chainani

“owning an income property means that the interest on the mortgage payments is also tax deductible.”

— Dwayne Brown

“the collapse of the housing market as it relates to an increase in suburban poverty.” So there.”

— Jessica Park