Let’s talk about consumer staples dividends today. If we’re heading for a slowdown then we need to be picky about our payouts. When the economy slows, discretionary spending is often…
If you sense that growth stocks’ long-lived leadership is finally waning, you’re not imagining things. And that’s not just because investors suddenly started locking in profits on the market’s hottest…
I grew up in Detroit, Michigan. My childhood was one of abject poverty. There were many days when I literally didn’t have anything to eat. Yet, Warren Buffett is still…
NextEra Energy (NEE) has been a wealth-creating machine over the decades. The utility company has been growing at an above-average rate for years, powered by Florida’s growing economy and its…
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…