Category: Investment

Five years ago, Realty Income $O sold at $70/share. Today, the stock sells at $60/share. Someone who invested 5 years ago and reinvested those dividends ended up with a total…

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows how much electricity is generated from renewable sources among G20 countries. The data is based on Ember’s yearly and monthly electricity reports…

The Best Performing Dividend Aristocrat over the past decade is a boring business that few ever talk about The company is Cintas (CTAS), which engages in the provision of corporate…

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This time around, the Fed may not be able to “save” the bubble from a complete round-trip deflation, which history suggests might…

Morningstar recently released the latest edition of their Mind the Gap research. Once again, “allocation” funds (e.g., balanced funds, target-date funds, LifeStrategy funds) had the smallest gap (i.e., best investor…

Russia is calling out the last several days of Western media reporting on the Nord Stream gas pipeline bombing as essentially a limited hangout. Suddenly all of this ‘new information’…

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Someone asked Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa for clarification on whether President Trump was really shot on July 13, and it replied in the negative.…

Warren Buffett started his investment career in the 1950s by focusing on traditional value investing strategies, as practiced by Ben Graham You can rea about the three categories of investments…

Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, A conversation between Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk has generated over a billion views, as Trump officially returned to the platform Monday.…

There has been a lot of buzz recently about the emergence of large trillion dollar companies. It looks like every investor out there wants to own those companies. It also…

Goldman Sachs analyst Scott Feiler told clients this AM the consumer is experiencing a “noticeable slowdown, moderation, or whatever term we choose to use—it’s quite evident by now.” Across industries—from…

Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Monday saw a sharp decline in stocks as investors worldwide felt the impacts of last week’s dismal jobs report, which…

In 2017, a paper by Hendrik Bessembinder produced what, to me, was (and still is) the most surprising investing factoid I’d ever read: the best-performing 4{3da602ca2e5ba97d747a870ebcce8c95d74f6ad8c291505a4dfd45401c18df38} percent of stocks explain…

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In my article ‘Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine’s Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations’, published in May, I outlined my reasons…

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the homicide rates for the U.S., UK, and Europe, based on data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, CNN,…

Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, India’s WION cited unnamed diplomatic sources to report on Friday that Prime Minister Modi is planning to visit Kiev at the end of August.…

There’s been plenty of ink recently spilled over Walgreen’s (WBA), a popular dividend stock. The company had been a darling for dividend investors, and up until recently had a high…

Authored by Connor Freeman via The Libertarian Institute, As NATO escalates its proxy war in Ukraine and inches closer to fighting directly with Russia, the Washington-led bloc is embracing mandatory…

Morningstar’s 3×3 “style box” for stock mutual funds has always been a useful tool for showing what portion of the fund is allocated to each category of stocks (e.g., large-cap…

“Good decisions come from experience. Experience. comes from bad decisions.” – Mark Twain I am a big fan of long-term investing. This is one of the few areas in life,…