Last October, I covered MPLX (NYSE: MPLX), a natural gas pipeline and storage company whose parent is Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC).
The stock’s dividend safety rating was upgraded from a “B” to an “A.”
Distributable cash flow, or DCF, a measure...
Over the weekend, I was thinking about some of our previous Oxford Club conferences. One that came to mind was our 2022 Private Wealth Seminar in Charleston, South Carolina.
Our hotel was located on King Street, a popular part...
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin wrote that more than two centuries ago. He was my ancestor, and I’ve spent a lifetime studying his advice. Lately those words have been on my mind for a reason I’ll...
It’s rare that we pull back the curtain of The Oxford Clubroom − our interactive, Members-only platform − in Wealthy Retirement.
But with everything that’s going on right now in the markets and around the world, I don’t want...
When a company gets much larger while its stock price gets much smaller, something’s not quite right. Clearly, investors are doubting that bigger sales mean bigger profits.
That’s the trouble with QXO (NYSE: QXO).
The company sells and installs building...
I’ve reviewed Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) twice in the past four years. Each time, the stock got an “F” rating for dividend safety.
In 2022, I said investors should expect a dividend cut in the next year or...
Years ago, I had a talk with my kids about how much things cost. They looked at me in shock and horror.
“Life is expensive,” I told them.
That’s even more true today. You’re likely paying at least $4 a...
“I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.”– Hilaire Belloc
“ tranquil, permanent felicity with which domestic society in America, blesses most of its inhabitants.”– Thomas Jefferson
On July 4,...
In my new book – The American Dream: Why It’s Still Alive… and How to Achieve It – I detail the many ways that academia, Hollywood, the corporate media, and social media try to depict the world as...
I’ve always been amazed by the story of nuclear power.
Decades ago, it promised a future with less need for oil and gas. Then nuclear technology became linked to war, and the accident at Three Mile Island turned public...
