Married couples claiming Social Security in 2026 are running into a tax problem that rarely gets mentioned in retirement planning conversations, and it hits harder when two incomes combine than when one person claims…
For retirees piecing together income from multiple sources, WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund (NYSEARCA:DHS) has become a quiet staple. With over 400 individual holdings and 19 years of uninterrupted monthly distributions, it offers consistency…
TSLY paid out more than $10.78 in distributions in 2024 alone, with an annualized yield cited as high as 75.31%. Generating that income requires a covered call structure that caps upside and leaves downside…
TQQQ has delivered a 47.69% gain over the past year and 2,653.53% over the past decade. Those numbers explain why retail investors keep coming back to it. The appeal is simple: own the Nasdaq-100,…
Reaching $1 million in retirement savings is the goal most Americans picture when they imagine financial security. Getting there is genuinely hard: the median retirement account balance for Americans in their 60s sits well…
A $600 car payment feels manageable until you do the math on what it costs you by age 65. Ramsey has long argued that car payments are one of the fastest ways to destroy…
Gold spent most of 2025 and early 2026 acting like the one asset that couldn’t be rattled. Then tariff escalation shook the foundation. The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) slipped 2.43% over the past week…
International developed markets have quietly staged a comeback. Over the trailing 12 months through early March 2026, the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) returned +22.88%, outpacing the S&P 500’s +17.69% over the same…
“Marvell tech had $1 billion more in sales than anyone thought. It’s involved directly with the data center. It’s got optical, it’s got fantastic equipment.” That was Jim Cramer on Friday morning, pointing to…
On a March 2026 episode of The Dave Ramsey Show, a caller named Maggie from Sioux Falls described a condo she and her husband owned in California, worth between $375,000 and $399,000, with $309,000…
With Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death on February 28, 2026 escalating Middle East tensions, crude oil has climbed from $57.54 in early January to $65.87 by late February, and the $100 conversation…
WTI crude has surged 10.3% in a single month, sitting at $71.13 per barrel, near the top of its 12-month range. That kind of move creates a clear opportunity for energy-focused funds to shine.…
DFCF has paid shareholders every single month since it launched in November 2021, quietly building a following among retirees seeking reliable fixed income. With $9.2 billion in net assets and a 4.52% dividend yield…
With WTI crude sitting at $80 per barrel as of early March, oil remains roughly $20 short of the $100 threshold that would dramatically reshape energy sector cash flows. But the geopolitical landscape is…
Global X SuperDividend U.S. ETF (NYSEARCA:DIV) has paid a monthly distribution every single month since launching in 2013. For retirees who need predictable cash flow, that track record is genuinely compelling. But the yield…
NASA’s Artemis II mission is targeting an April 2026 launch window, and prediction markets currently place the odds of liftoff by April 30 at roughly 54.5%. The rocket was rolled back to the Vehicle…
Retirement portfolios are built on one assumption that inflation keeps quietly attacking: that a dollar saved today will buy roughly a dollar’s worth of goods tomorrow. With the Consumer Price Index sitting at 326.6…
The death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, 2026 has fundamentally altered the risk calculus across global energy markets. With the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of global…
A 40-year-old social worker calls into The Dave Ramsey Show with nearly $300,000 in student loan debt, a 6-month-old baby, a paid-off $450,000 house in suburban New Jersey, and a husband earning $107,000 gross…
WTI crude has rallied higher this month, recovering from a December 2025 trough of $55.44 to sit near $81 per barrel. The catalyst: the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February…
