Every cloud has a silver lining. Sometimes, they have two. That’s the case with many stocks in the current market downturn. Dividend yields are higher. Valuations are lower. And those…
Worried about the trade war and your retirement portfolio? Then I have two words for you: monthly dividends. Today we’ll fawn over four monthly payers that yield up to 17.4%…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with Yahoo Finance the other day to make one thing clear. He’s not worried. Not about tariffs. Or the economy. Or the stock market.…
On one front, this tariff pandemonium changes nothing for us: We still see our favorite high-yield investments—8%+ paying closed-end funds (CEFs)—as the best choice to anchor your retirement portfolio. In…
The late, great Charlie Munger gave the world countless pieces of timeless advice. I think his greatest “mental model” was inversion. Basically, if you’re looking for a favorable outcome, simply…
Like an ex-spouse, the Safety Net model is fickle and unforgiving. Screw up with a year of negative cash flow growth (or even the potential for a down year), and…
The powers that be are playing a high-stakes game of “tariff roulette”—and I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to put my life savings on the table here!…
When the market starts to tumble, more aggressive investors often start looking for bargains in the list of previous top performers. For example, American Express has fallen nearly 30% from…
Although some tariff hikes have been paused, a recession is still very much in play. Just a few days ago, I wrote that “this is the time to recession-proof our…
The market has been super bumpy over the last several weeks. Volatility has picked up in a major way. But here’s the thing: Volatility is a feature, not a bug.…
As the stock market continues to plummet due to the implications on global trade from President Trump’s tariffs, investors need to seek out safe haven stocks to ride out the…
Most people don’t like seeing stock prices go down. It triggers a very natural emotional response associated with pain and loss. But for long-term investors, lower share prices are a…