Contrarian Outlook

We have plenty of cheap dividend stocks to buy today. But which ones are really bargains—and which are cheap for a reason?The P/E ratio won’t tip us off. We’re heading into a...

Members of my CEF Insider service and I always look for big dividends we can collect for the long haul. I’m talking 8%+ payouts here, many of which come our way monthly. (This is possible with...

The 2022 mess has helped protect our dividends from the many messes beyond America’s borders, like the collapsing UK economy, continued COVID-19 shutdowns in China and, of course, Russia...

Generally, recessions are bullish for bonds. Which makes this 3.8% bond yield a “best recession bet.”Why are we talking bonds in a year where they have all been crushed? Well, that’s...

One thing we always demand in a stock is a megatrend-powered dividend that grows. And there aren’t many megatrends bigger than the soaring need for (and tight supply of) food.I’ll share...

“Why are they interviewing this guy? He doesn’t know… anything.”I paused the Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) pseudo-documentary and searched for a quick, thoughtful response to my wife....

I hate to hear about investors using “rules” like the 60/40 portfolio (where you devote 60% of your holdings to stocks and the rest to bonds) to invest their hard-earned cash.The problem...

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...