Contrarian Outlook

Generally, recessions are bullish for bonds. Which makes this 4% bond yield a “best recession bet.”Why are we talking bonds when, over the past 18 months, they have all been crushed? Well,...

Right now we’ve got a terrific setup happening in Treasuries—and we’re going to use it to “flip” the near-4% yield the 10-year pays into a gaudy 7.9%+, paid monthly, to...

Not many people realize this, but there’s an easy way to build a reliable 10% dividend stream (with price upside) that crushes anything stocks—or an index fund—could pay you.I know...

Most vanilla investors like to buy stocks that are well-liked by Wall Street analysts. This strategy, my contrarian friend, we know is a recipe for disaster.Why? Well, firms that are already popular...

Plenty of CEF investors worry about dividend cuts. And for sure, they’re something to keep in mind. But CEFs are not the same as stocks. When we invest in high-quality CEFs, there are a couple...

“Do you have cherries?” my buddy Ralph asked over the phone.It was January 2021. Sports bars here in California were closed, so we naturally turned our backyard into one. “No,”...

Do you know how much money you need to retire?If you’re like most folks, you might think the answer is “too much,” and for good reason. It seems like every day we hear another study...

Not many people know this, but you can actually “magnify” the return of a regular stock—just by holding it through a closed-end fund (CEF).That’s in addition to getting a much...

Finally, food! The kids had their slices. I had a break from my conversation. And I was hungry after coaching and refereeing eight periods of second-grade basketball.I grabbed the greasiest slice of...

Food stocks have been hit hard this year—and we contrarian dividend shoppers can no longer ignore the bargains on offer!Investors’ overly negative take on these “essential”...

Today we’re going to click our way to a dividend stream that matches the average household income stream in America—$70,784 per year—and we’re not going to do it on a much...

When it comes to closed-end funds (or any investment, for that matter), it pays to look for things most people misunderstand. Because these (seemingly) tiny investor oversights and errors can give us...

These 5.7% and 8.9% dividend payers are ready to rally.Whether they pop this year or next, we shall see. It’s a matter of when rather than if—which is what we gladly sign up for as income...

Let’s go ahead and grab a slice of AI’s furious growth and get ourselves a nice 6% dividend (paid monthly), too.Better still, we’re going to get in at an unheard-of 13% discount....

When I was a kid, I thought everyone on TV was rich. I know better now, of course, but it still strikes me when I hear stories of celebrities going broke, struggling to earn a living, or taking on...

Bull or bear? Who cares when we can collect dividends between 10.1% and 11.8%?That’s not a typo. The S&P 500 pays 1.7%. The 10-year Treasury yields two points more at 3.7%. That’s...