Economist Justin Wolfers dropped a number on the Prof G Markets podcast that should reorganize how you think about the 2026 economy. Since Trump took office, healthcare and social services has added…
The Federal Reserve’s asset cap on Wells Fargo came off in 2025. JPMorgan’s board waved through a $50 billion repurchase authorization. Bank of America returned $9.30 billion to shareholders in a single…
The SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (NYSEARCA:KRE) has quietly become one of 2026’s better-performing financial trades, rising roughly 9% year to date and 28% over the past year to around $70 a…
On a recent episode of The Pomp Podcast featuring guest Jordi Visser, host Anthony Pompliano surfaced a notable statement from Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) founder Jeff Bezos: the bottom 50%…
During a recent episode of The Pomp Podcast featuring guest Jordi Visser, host Anthony Pompliano highlighted a striking proposal from Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos believes the…
Imagine a retiree who reads that Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEARCA:VIG) is a top dividend fund, parks $300,000 in it, and waits for the checks to arrive. They get ~$4,500 a year.…
The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VIG) is having a quieter year than its big-cap dividend-growth reputation suggests, with shares around $229 and a 5% year-to-date gain trailing the broader…
The Vanguard S&P 500 Value Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VOOV) distributes income four times a year from the dividend-paying half of the S&P 500, and at roughly $223 a share it has…
Some investors are embracing the financial sector ahead of what they deem as an even more euphoric stretch of a new roaring 20s, whereas others believe a recession is imminent. The most…
Retirement bucket strategies have a way of getting complicated fast. Don McDonald, co-host of Talking Real Money, prefers a far simpler framework: keep exactly one year of spending in safe money, rebalance…
For much of the past two years, Wall Street treated long-run inflation expectations as the boring part of the macro story. Short-run prints whipped around. The five-year horizon stayed anchored. That assumption…
The value-over-growth rotation that strategists had been calling for since the start of the year is finally showing up in fund returns. Through mid-May, large-cap value indexes are running ahead of several…
Income investors who bought the iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF (NASDAQ:PFF) for its distribution yield near 6.5% are sitting on a structural feature most never modeled: roughly 60% to 70% of…
A retiree holding $200,000 of Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:VYM) collects roughly $4,800 in annual income at the fund's current distribution yield, with no rebalancing required and no concentration risk to…
The Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSEARCA:PFFA) sits at $21.62 heading into the back half of 2026, paying a 9.5% yield that has drawn income investors looking for something between bond…
