Do retirement solutions come any better than a safe 8% dividend, paid monthly? This is what we contrarian income seekers love about the Aberdeen Asia-Pacific IF Inc (NYSE:FAX). It...
The stock market goes up as well as down and, for whatever reason, it tends to swing wildly in September and October. With last Monday’s intraday price action, we saw our...
The Largest Money Creation Event, EverSome have comically called this a great “economic experiment.” The federal government collected $3.5 trillion in tax receipts last...
The way most folks invest, they’ll need way more than a million bucks to retire—in fact, they’ll need almost double that! No wonder so many people throw up their...
Should we income investors buy any bonds right now? Bond prices have rallied, but the rear view mirror doesn’t help any new money we’re putting to work right now....
Thanks to the December selloff, it’s relatively easy to find 9% yields. The stock market was a relentlessly receding tide in the fourth quarter, which is bad for “buy...
Today, the 10-year Treasury pays just 2.7%. Put a million bucks in T-Bills, and you’re banking $27,000 per year. Hence the appeal of closed-end funds (CEFs), which often pay...