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...
“Now the time has come (Time)There are things to realize (Time)Time has come today (Time)Time has come today (Time).”– The Chambers Brothers
The most important element to investing success is not stock-picking ability – it’s time. The longer you’re...
It seems like no one knows what to think about AI stocks these days.
For every expert screaming “full speed ahead!”, there’s another one warning investors to pump the brakes.
Last week, our friends at MarketBeat invited Chief Income Strategist...
Inflation may have slowed down, but no one is celebrating. At 2.7%, it remains well above the Fed’s 2% target.
And with more interest rate cuts likely coming and higher tariffs still on the table, I expect inflation to...
