Contrarian Outlook

“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...

From what I can see, this year is setting up to be another 2016—and that’s likely to hand us a buying opportunity in our favorite high-yield investments: closed-end funds...

There is another.–Yoda The Jedi Master had last week’s 8.4% dividend in mind, no doubt. David Friar’s Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX) is an elite 8%+ payer worthy of...

Natural gas prices have been completely washed out—and that’s set up some sweet dividend opportunities for us contrarians to tap into.(These opportunities aren’t just in gas, by the...

Recent headlines have spurred some readers to write in about China—specifically what rising tensions between Beijing and Washington (no thanks to the former’s ham-fisted spy-balloon...

Want to know the secret to retiring on dividends alone?Keep that capital intact. We invest to generate income. The more we have, the greater our potential payouts. So, losing the principle is a...