With such a wide range of US company stocks available for investment, the sheer breadth of choices can often become intimidating and overwhelming to neophyte investors. Familiar industrial names can often be a good…
People who work for companies large enough to offer 401-K plans are fortunate if their employers include matching contributions. The additional retirement funds can be a welcome accelerant towards wealth building via a combination…
Companies that climb to high market prices will often give their Boards of Directors cause to propose forward stock splits to keep the market price quote at a sufficiently affordable price for new buyers…
The Baby Boomer generation has an unusual relationship with technology. Due to the huge strides made with digital technology, computers, smart phones, A.I., and all other associated telecommunications and information processing they entail, there…
Different Strokes For Different Folks Sly and the Family Stone were a disruptive force in the music industry in the 1960s. It was the first multiplatinum selling band to defy categorization, as its multiethnic…
As the current S&P 500 bull run enters its 36th month, some concerns have arisen about a potential bubble. With some US company evaluations reaching unprecedented hundreds of billions, and even trillions in market…
As a barometer of US industrial and corporate economic health, the S&P 500 Index has few equals. Over the past decade, less than 15% of professional large-cap fund managers have been able to surpass…
The popular Netflix series Cobra Kai revived The Karate Kid film franchise and served to fully flesh out previously established characters as well as introduce new ones. One of the more fascinating and honest…
Baby Boomers are the biggest retiree US demographic within retiree history. Roughly 4 million Americans will turn 65 by 2027, with the total born roughly numbering 73 million. As a result, their investment preferences…
Although covered call ETFs and CEFs are all the rage, the first ones in the industry actually launched in 2004, with BlackRock’s Enhanced Capital and Income Fund, followed by several others. The Nuveen NASDAQ…
Blade Runner (1982) was a sci-fi noir film starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer that has since become hailed as a classic. It featured Hauer as Roy Batty, a Replicant, with the appearance of…
Although Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) have received a much higher degree of publicity of late, one can find that Closed End Funds (CEF) still offer unique investment opportunities that set them apart from ETFs.…
For the past century, dividends from stocks or bonds were primarily of interest to older, conservative investors who had made their money and were seeking principal protection and income. The concept of using covered…
Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) have quickly emerged over the past few decades as the investment asset class of choice for investors who prefer ETF real time pricing, lower expenses, and wide menu of choices…
Until President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and pro-business strategies re-energized American entrepreneurship in 2017 and again in 2025, history had to look back to the era of President Ronald Reagan for its most recent…
In recent years, the subject of portfolio growth has taken on a much larger level of importance with younger Millennials to Gen-Z. Some of this attention is the result of the FIRE (Financial Independence…
The YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA: ULTY) has become a lightning bolt of controversy among ETF investors. As part of the YieldMax catalog of ETFs, ULTY is one of the few based…
Since its 1957 debut, the S&P 500 Index has been such a strong and reliable arbiter of US stock market health that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have both routinely touted it in interviews.…
One of the benefits of fintech apps and the appeal to Gen-Z and trading on sites like RobinHood is a greater awareness and urgency from the younger generation on the subject of retirement. Thanks…
Tommy Lee is notorious for his hedonistic lifestyle, his leaked X-rated video with ex-wife starlet Pamela Anderson, and his manic drumming with the iconic heavy metal band, Mötley Crüe, which legitimized its style of…
