Contrarian Outlook

The bond market is blowing up many retirement portfolios. Let’s make sure yours is outrunning inflation, rates, and everything else—with these yields up to 25%.(That’s not a typo....

Let’s test the common “wisdom” that a double-digit dividend is unsustainable. The closed-end fund (CEF) we’re going to discuss today turns that notion on its head!I’m...

Will China buy Bitcoin? If I were President Xi Jinping, looking across the Taiwan Strait, I would. Why wouldn’t he want to diversify his $1 trillion pile of Treasuries?But there’s one...

I always laugh when I hear investors say you can’t time the market. Truth is, you can—my readers and I have done it many times! I’m going to show you my favorite way to time the...

If you’ve sat out oil stocks until now, it’s easy to think you missed the boat. After all, oil’s big run has sent shares of producers (and pipeline operators) soaring. That’s...

We contrarians don’t normally buy dividend stocks high. But when we do, we sell them higher.These 25 dividend stocks we’re about to discuss are hitting new 52-week highs. This is notable...

There’s nothing we closed-end fund investors love more than finding a smartly run fund in an unfairly beaten-down sector. This hands us a nice discount (of course!), plus a much bigger dividend,...

Relax. You might already have enough money to retire on.My favorite dividend stocks let people retire comfortably on $500,000 or so. Got more cash? Great! You’re in elite company. Fidelity...

Beware of Wall Street “wisdom” now more than ever. Especially when it comes to the most commonly quoted maxim for retirement: it’s based on a rule that was never designed for times...

One thing we love about closed-end funds (beyond the dividends: many CEFs yield 7%+ today) is the big discounts to net asset value, or NAV, that these funds hand us.These discounts only exist with...

Here’s the surest, safest way to double our money in any kind of market. This works whether we’re comparing 2019’s roaring bull run or 2022’s blabbering bear. Over long time...

These days, everyone is on guard for a recession. And the inverted yield curve only added to those fears.Sure, a recession may be in the offing, but I don’t see one starting anytime soon. I...

Floating-rate bonds are supposed to be sailing right now. So why are they sinking?Last week we lamented the reason most bond funds are down this year. The runaway long rate is to blame. Ten-year...

In just over a month, the script has flipped for us dividend investors: Russia’s war on Ukraine has cleaved the world into two teams: East vs. West.Some pundits have dubbed it Cold War 2.0. But...

Today we’re going to dive into a three-fund portfolio that throws off a massive 9.7% dividend yield and that payout is backstopped by stocks everyone knows well.With a dividend like this, $500k...

Volatility is high, stocks are shaky, and there’s a war in Europe. So we’ll take a pass on the highflyers and opt for monthly dividends instead. "Retire on dividends” folks have...