Contrarian Outlook

I recently joined Market Wrap to chat with Moe Ansari about the market. The time to dump stocks, I told Moe, was early in the year. Or late 2021. Before the mainstream media even whispered the words...

Bear markets are great for calculated contrarian investors like us. We have many dividend growers in the bargain bin.I mean, it’s rarely this stuffed. We have lots to sort through today....

For some folks, it’s almost a reflex to buy gold when inflation hits or volatility ramps up. In times like those, they simply flock to the yellow metal—no questions asked.But buying gold...

Plenty of folks are starting to look toward the new year, and I’m getting a lot of questions about my outlook for high-yield closed-end funds (CEFs) for the rest of 2022 and into 2023.Of course,...

Don’t be drawn in by this spiking 2-year Treasury yield. Even at just north of 4%, we’re still not retiring off of it!Think about it for a second: for a ho-hum 4.2%, you’re locking...

The US consumer just got a $162-billion “pay raise,” and I’m betting you haven’t heard a word about it. Today, we’re going to tap that “extra” cash through a...

To paraphrase the great Jerry Maguire:Show me the money. Monthly! I don’t know about you, but my bills come every 30 days. So, I demand the same from my dividends. Monthly dividend payers are a...

Today we’re in a situation that looks a lot like 2016. And back then, some savvy contrarians tapped it to grab quick 62%+ returns. The same setup is back again—and so is our chance for...

The stock market keeps falling and falling because, for the first time in 14 years, there’s nobody to catch it.The “Fed put” has expired. The genesis of the Federal Reserve’s...

Today we’re going to “onshore” ourselves 2 unsung dividend payers that are pumping out cash: one has seen its cash flow surge 367% in just the last three years—feeding a quick...

Municipal bonds are too often ignored by investors. Which is a huge missed dividend opportunity.It’s too bad, because billionaires have been using “munis” to anchor their portfolios...

“Hey Brett, how’s business?”“Awful,” I admitted. “But we’re a startup. If we can improve from awful to simply bad, it will be a big milestone for...

Some major—and almost totally ignored—news from Washington, D.C., is about to upend the biotech world, turning America into “the world’s pharmacy” in short...

Why chase the market when we can let 15% per year—every year—come to us?This is the perfect time to buy what I call “hidden yield” investments. These are stocks that dish out...

'Deglobalization' is the dividend trade of the 2020s. And we’re going to tap it for safe dividend growers with real assets and real cash flow.I’ll drop two tickers in a second. Signs that...

Most folks don’t know it, but real estate has clobbered stocks in the long run, and it’s poised to pull off a win again in 2023.And we dividend investors are nicely lined up to cash in,...