Downtown Los Angeles Summit of the Americas Snarls Traffic, Exposes Embarrassing Dangers

REAL ESTATE NEWS ( Downtown Los Angeles, CA) — The Summit of Americas brings traffic, road closures to Downtown LA. Barricades, road closures and snarled traffic combine with homeless tent cities, an explosion of violent crime, skyrocketing fuel prices and runaway inflation. Amid all this, a convention center full of politicians.

President Biden promises to outline his vision for the future at this week’s Summit of the Americas here in LA, according to CBS. Not everyone is happy about this presidential visit to Downtown Los Angeles. Many will avoid being downtown this week because presidential motorcades cause many street closures, leading to massive gridlock in the city center. Street barricades are installed, positioned in front of the convention center where the summit will be. Unfortunately, Biden and global leaders will be coming and going, all week, shuttling and fro, leading to blocked streets and halted vehicles on many streets and freeways.

The Ninth Summit of Americas allows for important discussions of big issues, including immigration, human rights and climate change. Hopefully they will discuss how to stop the deadly flow of fentanyl into this country. This is the first time for the United States to host the summit since 1994. Apparently the president if Mexico is not going to show up because the U.S. has banned leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. While it’s still not clear exactly which foreign leaders will be here, one thing is for sure — they’re be getting a gander of a Los Angeles that more closely resembles how poorer countries looked 40 years ago: homeless shanties and decaying infrastructure. It’s unlikely that many of the world leaders will be getting out to take a walk. It’s simply too dangerous. If they are not assaulted by mentally ill homeless, they might break their ankle in one of many holes in the sidewalks, where they could be electrocuted by exposed high power lines. If they survive that, they could be hit by miscellaneous stray bullets. The world leaders could be shocked by the smell of trash, rotting waste, urine and human excrement on the sidewalks.

Caltrans warns drivers to stay away from the areas between the 110, 10 and 101 freeways, and to avoid the 6th street avenue off ramps. On Tuesday, the voting booths in the same area present a possibility of conflicting traffic chaos between summit attendees, police, voters and workday commuters.

World leaders are also getting an up-close glimpse of the languishing symbol of communist China real estate crash, the development project ghost building called OceanWide Plaza. It’s right across the street from LA LIVE and the Crypto.com Arena. Also nearby are Flower Street Lofts, Ritz Carlton Residences, Ten50, Evo, Elleven, Luma and Metropolis condominium buildings.

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Real Estate, Gold and Bitcoin – The Trifecta of Wealth in 2022

INVESTMENT NEWS — Get way, way ahead of the pack in this wacky time, increasing wealth by triangulating the trifecta of financial assets. For a fleeting moment, U.S. Dollars are king of the fiat crop when it comes to spending money, but not for long. While most other currencies are even worse, we’re approaching the end of USD hegemony in world financial affairs, as the dollar falls precipitously in value. Inflation and stagnation, here to stay for some time, must be dealt with and taken advantage of using new methods before the great currency crisis, the coming collapse of the dollar. Bitcoin is up nearly 9 million percent in just over 12 years, up nearly 10% in the last 24 hours. Gold continues to earn its salt, still proving today to be the great insurance, the supreme hedge against all that ails the greenback. Of the top wealth creators, only one is considered to be one of the basic necessities of survival — that is real estate. In a year of volatility and ambiguity, these three wealth creators shine through the clouds to provide the power, the proof and the pudding.

STOCK MARKET CRASH

First of all, we must address the stock market, one of the most popular asset classes for more than 100 years now. Why does the LA Loft Blog often discuss gold, bitcoin and other assets, but not stocks? The reason why we have not been so keen on stocks is because of the high risk-to-reward ratio, along with low utility value, compared to other assets. In a given day, stocks have hardly more than a 50% chance of making a profit. For those holding stocks for 20 years, they have close to a 100% chance of making a profit, but after rising inflation and taxes, the profit is not that great. On top of that, you cannot eat, wear or live in a stock. That’s why, when the LA Loft Blog talks about profit from stocks, we usually discuss how best to short the bad stocks in order to make a killing. As far as today’s crashy stock market goes, we won’t say “we told you so,” but we did mention and warn about it. We’ve heard some “experts” erroneously call stocks the best investment of all time. They must be listening to financial news from around 1999. There’s a new sheriff in town, and he lives on the blockchain.

THE NEW MONEY THAT REPLACES THE DOLLAR

In the last 12 years, Bitcoin has increased in value by more than 8.9 million percent. By that measures Bitcoin is by far the best investment in history. Exactly as the Loft Blog projected years ago, Bitcoin is today the king of all investments. On top of that, Bitcoin has never lost money over a three year period. Add Bitcoin’s amazing utility: In addition to being the internet money, blockchain technology for trustless transactions, authentication, verification, authorization, payment processing, digital currency, international trade, transaction privacy, small business empowerment, automation, transparency, store of value, Bitcoin has heralded a new, exponential record-breaking era of Return On Investment. Add spin-off blockchain technologies like Ethereum for breakthrough smart contracts, the future of business, taking the online marketplace by storm. Best of all, these blockchain assets protect from consumer price inflation and dollar devaluation.

PROTECTED BY GLIMMERING RELIABILITY

Gold speaks for itself, repeating and banging everyone over the head for thousands of years: “Own me, I’m beautiful and precious,” gold sings out like a Lorelei — so don’t get distracted by it’s glimmer, but do own it for less-emotional reasons. Gold is right. Considered by many to be the ultimate in sound money, gold has protected financial well-being for thousands of years. It’s hard to go wrong with gold as long as it its securely stored physical gold or kept in a place that does not ban or confiscate gold. Some places have already respected and protected the privacy of gold, including Switzerland. The United States, on the other hand, has largely set a sad course of increased wealth confiscation for some time, part of the reason why the US is now mired in stagflation. Gold protects against stock market crashes, real estate crashes, volatility, inflation and dollar devaluation.

HOME SWEET INVESTMENT

Like gold, real estate has been around for thousands of years — much longer if you include cabins, huts, caves and farmland. Real estate is the extremely popular, highly-recommended asset class that is also one of the basic necessities of survival, giving real estate, not only one of the best sure shots of return on investment, but also must-have utility that is 2nd to none. More urgently, real estate is one of the best hedges against runaway inflation, hidden depression and stagflation that scars the investment landscape of the 2020s. The investment that you live in, real estate is the gift that keeps on giving, often surpassing stocks in ROI, and standing out as the biggest and best investment that the average family makes in a lifetime.

When we add up the utility, ROI and safety provided by these three key assets, its easy to see and feel the security, wisdom, wealth and health afforded by the three diverse royals of investment: Real estate, gold and Bitcoin

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