It’s about future dividends, not the size of current dividends. I have developed my dividend investment philosophy over 25 years of managing my own investments. Now that I’m retired (from work, not from investing) I have the time to think through and write down my investment strategies to share with…

We have always had stupid. All through history there are examples of stupid people doing stupid things, usually to their own detriment. A modern tribute to the stupidity of individuals is the Darwin Awards which commemorates individuals that remove themselves from the human gene pool by making stupid choices. In…

Recently, a fellow medium writer, Teresa Roberts, wrote an article titled: A Letter to the Hundreds of Religions. I started a comment on her article but it started to get so long I decided to turn my comment into an article in its own right. …

I look forward to market drops, particularly large ones like has been happening since the new year. It presents a wonderful opportunity for me to improve the state of my investment holdings, without actually having any additional cash to invest! When markets are climbing, as they have been in the…

Denial is how we get through it. Life is complicated, difficult, and stressful for most people. One of the primary methods of managing that stress is denial. With the internet and other media, the fire hose of data that people deal with is immense. Trying to sort out the truth…