“Nobody knows nothin’.”– Jack Bogle
Vanguard’s legendary founder, Jack Bogle, once relayed a story that when he was first starting out in the investment business, his mentor told him to remember that “Nobody knows nothin’.”
When it comes to Wall...
In May of 2024, I looked at Gladstone Capital‘s (Nasdaq: GLAD) dividend safety, giving it a “B” rating. At the time, the only issue was a small dividend cut of just a cent per month in 2020.
Net investment...
A friend of mine is very wealthy. Yet every time the market shimmies, he asks me if he should get out.
“It depends on your tolerance for risk,” I explain to him. I walk him through a series of...
The Value Meter was never built to chase returns. It was built to answer a narrower question: What am I actually paying for the cash this business produces?
That difference matters when you look back at the results –...
“Oops, I did it again”– Britney Spears
In 2025, Safety Net was once again an excellent resource for evaluating the safety of a company’s dividend.
During the year, 10 stocks were rated “A” for dividend safety. None of them cut...
Have you ever taken a class where it felt like the professor opened up your brain like an empty Tupperware container and filled it with knowledge?
That’s what happened to me when I took a graduate-level class with one...
Today, we’re doing something we’ve never done before.
In this special “new year” edition of Wealthy Retirement, we’re running a stock through the Safety Net model and The Value Meter… at the same time.
Using these two popular methodologies in...
Editor’s Note: Hello and happy new year to all of our readers!
Our New Year’s resolution in Wealthy Retirement is simple: Continue to deliver insights that can help you prepare for – or improve – your retirement and move...
In a recent column, I described how most products in the U.S. became increasingly affordable between 1980 and 2020 when measured in the number of hours worked to pay for them.
However, we saw the biggest spike in inflation...
