3 Dividend Kings to Buy in July
Dividend Kings, companies with at least 50 consecutive years of dividend increases, are the quiet backbone of an income portfolio. Heading into July, three of them stand out for different reasons: One is the…
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The Year You Sell the Business Is the Year Medicare Decides You’re Rich — Twice Over
A 65-year-old who sold her landscaping company in 2024 opened her January 2026 Medicare notice and saw a Part B premium of $689.90. Her husband’s line showed the same number. They had not taken…
Study: AI Is Actually Creating More Jobs, Not Killing Them (But There’s a Catch)
For the past two years, the dominant narrative around artificial intelligence has been straightforward: smarter software means fewer workers. Layoff announcements from technology companies only reinforced that belief. Yet new evidence suggests the story…
$900,000 and a Boat Slip: Here’s How to Retire to Cape Coral, Florida, at 62
A single-story house on a Cape Coral canal, a sport boat on the lift out back, sunset cruises to a sandbar on weekends, and roughly $900,000 in a brokerage account at age 62 can…
A Retired Couple Loaded Up on Tax-Free Municipal Bonds. In Their 70s, the Interest Still Taxes Their Social Security.
A married couple in their early 70s shifted their fixed-income money into municipal bonds for the simple pitch: tax-free interest, steady payments, less to worry about at tax time. Then they opened their tax…
The Dividend Portfolio That Can Cover a Silicon Valley House Payment
A median Silicon Valley home can easily run near $1.6 million to $2 million, and today’s mortgage rates can turn that into a roughly $10,000 to $12,000 monthly housing payment once principal, interest, property…
Why FNGU’s 0.95% Fee Is Only Half the Hidden Cost
An investor who put $10,000 into FNGU on June 1, 2026 watched it shrink by roughly 28.88% in a single month, while the Nasdaq-100 barely moved. That gap is the product working as designed.…
$10,000 Became $5,744: The Equal-Weight Rebalancing Tax That WCLD Never Discloses
If you bought WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (NASDAQ:WCLD) five years ago hoping to ride the cloud wave, your $10,000 is now worth roughly $5,744. That is the visible cost. The hidden one is what…
Police Officers Are Missing a Social Security Change Worth Thousands a Year
If you spent your career as a police officer in one of the roughly 15 states where public employees pay into a pension instead of Social Security, a rule change that took effect in…
Forget College? The AI Boom Is Creating a New Generation of Six-Figure Trade Jobs
On Fox Business’s The Bottom Line this week, Mike Rowe told viewers: “You cannot reinvigorate the trades without reimagining the way we train the next generation of workers. These jobs by and large exist…
Trump Accounts Default to State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, Here Are 3 Better ETF Options
The new Trump Accounts program parks starter capital for kids in the State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) by default. It is a sensible pick: SPYM tracks the S&P 500 at rock…
Why Money Is Leaving Bitcoin for Hyperliquid
Investors pulled a record amount of money out of the spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) ETFs in June. Meanwhile, over the same month, Hyperliquid’s new ETFs kept taking money in and have never had a losing…
Former National Security Advisor Calls Iran’s $40 Billion Hormuz Toll Threat a “Blackmail Scheme” Against the Free Flow of Energy
Former deputy national security advisor Victoria Coates used a July 2 appearance on Fox Business’s Kudlow, guest-hosted by David Asman, to frame Iran’s proposed toll on tanker traffic transiting the Strait of Hormuz as…
You Aren’t Defined by Your Financial Mistakes: Dave Ramsey Tells a Caller to Cancel His Mother’s $18,000 Credit Card Immediately
A caller to The Ramsey Show earning $85,000 a year called in with two debt problems layered on top of each other. His own balance had started at $53,000. He told Dave Ramsey, “I’ve…
Veteran Investor: China’s Full Stack AI Is “Overlooked and Underpriced” As $2 Billion Kling Deal Signals Repricing
Analyst Billy Leung used a July 3, 2026 appearance on Bloomberg’s “The China Show” to argue that global investors are underweighting a wide slice of China’s artificial intelligence economy, and that a wave of…