17 Dividend Growth Stocks Rewarding Owners With A Raise
I review the list of dividend increases every week, as part of my portfolio monitoring process. I leverage several of my dividend investing resources for this effort. I started by…
Trump May Not Need To Pull Trigger On Tariffs, Economist Says
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Economists near-universally warn that President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose “across-the-board” 20-percent tariffs on imports will trigger inflation, disrupt domestic industries, and…
The Quality Compounder Boom – Dividend Growth Investor
As a Dividend Growth Investor, my investable universe is the group of companies that have managed to increase annual dividends for at least 10 years in a row. Once I…
Pentagon Fails 7th Audit In Row, Aims For Clean Audit In 2028
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, For the seventh year in a row, the Department of Defense (DOD) has failed its annual financial statement audit, a massive undertaking…
Investing Blog Roundup: Retirement Spending, Gifting, and Big Inheritances
I’ve seen it over and over again with clients: they reached financial independence at some point in their 50s or 60s. And then, years later (maybe several years, maybe a…
Living Off Dividends in Retirement vs Selling Stock
As a dividend growth investor, I invest with the end goal in mind. My goal, from the very beginning of my journey, has been to generate a certain amount of…
Can Paul Tudor Jones And Stanley Druckenmiller Be Wrong?
Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Can famed investors Paul Tudor Jones and Stan Druckenmiller, who recently proclaimed they are short bonds, thus betting on higher yields, be wrong? Instead…
How to Actually Build a TIPS Ladder — Oblivious Investor
TIPS are an extremely useful investment option in some scenarios. If you want to have a certain amount of purchasing power available, on a specific date, nothing can do that…
26 Dividend Growth Stocks Raising Dividends Last Week
I review the list of dividend increases every single week, as part of my monitoring process. A long history of dividend increases is an indication of a quality company with…
Kamala Booed After Beyoncé Bait-N-Switch
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Kamala Harris rally in Houston last night was billed as a Beyoncé concert. Everyone, including the media, believed the singer would perform after…
All The World’s A Stage: Everything Is Fake
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, No wonder we’re restless, teetering on the edge, frustrated by our addictions to fakery and excess, starved for what cannot be marketed…
Key Events This Week: PMIs, Durables, Fed Speakers And Earnings Galore
In his preview of the next few days, DB’s Jim Reid has some good news for those who feel like it’s already Friday: “It doesn’t feel like its going to…
Eight Dividend Growth Companies Rewarding Shareholders With Raises Last Week
The US Stock Market is one giant dividend growth machine. What is truly remarkable is that the record of dividend payments by US corporations heavily favors rising dividends over declining…
FEMA Still Paying $9,000 For COVID Funerals, Billions On Pandemic Payouts
By Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) carries out widely-criticized responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, officials say the agency’s Disaster Recovery Fund is…
Election Interference? Dems Won’t Certify Election If Trump Wins
Authored by Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov via Headline USA, Despite their constant whining about the Jan. 6, 2021, “insurrection,” the Democrats recently admitted that they won’t certify the 2024 election results…
Warren Buffett and Strategy Diversification
Many investors discuss Buffett on diversification, and conclude that he ran a “concentrated portfolio” This is missing the nuance that he was diversified in terms of strategies he followed, especially…
Largest California Cannabis Delivery Company Shutting Down
Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, The largest cannabis delivery company in California will shut down by the end of the year, according to a letter from the…
A Historic Short Squeeze In Oil Has Only Begun
Last weekend, we warned readers that according to the latest data from Goldman Sachs, a massive short squeeze in energy stocks was on deck. Goldman: Watch For A Massive Squeeze…
The Demise Of US Political Debate?
The vice presidential debate hosted this week by CBS News and broadcast nationally on TV is the first and only scheduled of its kind between Democratic pick Tim Walz and…
Escobar: Watching The China River Flow
Authored by Pepe Escobar, Leading website Guancha has published the transcript of a first-class lecture at Renmin University on China-U.S. relations by Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the…