AI usage is booming. What does AI use? It uses energy. AI is a notable energy hog, so the local utility company was the ...

Yeah, we’re here for the dividends. But isn’t it nice when we buy a stock and it goes up, like, right away? And it happens for us. We are contrarians! We buy payers when they are out of favor because ...

We’ve got an early start to the year-end tax-loss selling season to thank for this opportunity. Forget Year-End: The Best ...

Research from Bank of America shows that lower-income groups saw 4.7% year-over-year after-tax wage growth in August. That’s ...

But in March 2025, the Board cut it a whopping 32% from $1.565 to $1.0625 per share quarterly—from a juicy $6.26 to less so ...

This latest shift toward interest rate hikes has sent income investors into a tizzy. That’s great for us, because they’re tossing out one terrific fund kicking out a 7.8% dividend that’s grown. This ...

I shook my head in disbelief as I whispered this unfolding “riddle” to my coaching buddy in the chair next to me. We were at the YMCA fall basketball meeting, sweating it out in the preschool room.

In one corner of the income market, a “rubber band” is stretched about as far as it can go. When it snaps back, I expect it to catapult the prices of a select group of 10%+ payers much higher from ...

It’s September—traditionally the weakest month for stocks—and we contrarians are responding. We’ve got the (ugh!) midterms coming up. Tariff unpredictability has returned. And scorching long-term bond ...

When the world is burning—as it feels like it is now—it pays to remember the words of Howard Marks, the smartest money manager most people have never heard of. The essence of Marks’s approach is ...

Why sit around and wait all quarter long for a dividend payment? Monthly divvies are where the retirement party is at! These income “cheat codes” arrive alongside our bills and recurring expenses.