Contrarian Outlook

“Is $1 million enough to retire on?”Paul Katzeff of Investor’s Business Daily asked me earlier this month. He was especially keen on high-paying ETFs that would throw off enough...

Mainstream investors are stuck with cheesy dividend ETFs paying measly sub-3% yields. But we contrarians can grab ourselves a lot more dividend cash with a “switch” in our portfolio that...

Many folks see dividends as just a source of income. But they’re so much more! The two high-yield buys I’ll show you today, for example, are what I like to call “dividend Swiss Army...

Since traditional banks have backed off on business lending over the years, BDCs (business development companies) have stepped in. They provided much-needed debt, equity, and other financial solutions...

By now I’m guessing you’ve heard of the FIRE movement—you may even know someone who’s following this “extreme” form of retirement saving.An acronym for...

I sold this stock for a 4X return. It was a big gaffe.Fortunately, my amends—a renewed recommendation—helped careful contrarian readers to 22% profits in just over three weeks! We’ll...

Today I’m going to give you a shot at the next Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN), which has delivered a dividend that’s surged 104% since members of my Hidden Yields service bought it in...

What if I told you there are 152 funds out there that yield 7%+? And many of these stout income plays are even safer than the typical S&P 500 stock! They hold the household-name stocks we all...

Dividend Aristocrats are popular. Too popular, if you ask me.I’ll concede that the surest, safest way to big stock market gains is dividend growth. Over time, stock prices are literally pulled...

Let’s talk about a fund that seems to tick all the dividend-and-growth boxes we income investors demand.Low fees? Yep. High yield? How does a 7.7% payout (nearly six times the S&P 500...

Contrary to popular opinion, we shouldn’t believe everything we read online. Even simple tasks such as counting dividends are often mishandled by our internet overlords.Mainstream financial...

Do yourself a favor and shut out all the “experts” who say it’s impossible to retire on dividends alone. They’re just plain wrong! Because even today, with stocks soaring (and...

It pains me when I see regular folks take the flawed “advice” to simply plow their money into an index fund and call it a day.The biggest problem with this “strategy” is...

Cheap stocks are fun. We can buy a lot of shares without shelling out too much dough.Generally speaking, most single-digit stocks are “cheap for a reason”—they are losers. But we...

If anyone tells you that all the big dividends have been bought up in this inflated market, do yourself a favor: tune them out.Because while stocks are up—and dividend yields are down as a...

"Regular" REITs typically buy physical properties, find someone to manage them, and lease them out. They collect rent checks and avoid paying taxes on most of these profits if they distribute 90% of...