Look at them stare. Remember the film She’s All That, a modern twist on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion? The plot involves a cruel bet made by a popular high school athlete who claims he can turn any girl on campus into a prom queen in six weeks. He targets… Read More

December 2022 Issue How To Invest Like Peter Lynch This Semiconductor Stalwart Is On Sale (And Yields 5%) Dividend Raisers & Special Dividends Portfolio Updates: TRTN, AL-A “Buy First” List Everybody loves triple-digit gainers. There’s just something special about a stock that doubles your money. Of course, that’s… Read More

I’m not going to talk too much about today’s elections. There is plenty enough of that everywhere else. We may get a mid-term bounce this week. They are rather common, although you could argue that this one may already be mostly behind us. The major averages shot higher in October… Read More

November 2022 Issue Air Travel Is Back — And It’s Going To Grow… This Preferred Stock Is On Sale (And Yields 7%) Dividend Raisers & Special Dividends Portfolio Updates: VICI, COP “Buy First” List There wasn’t anything particularly noteworthy about June 26, 2022. It… Read More

I’m reminded of the opening theme song to the popular 90’s sitcom Friends: when it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year. Investors can probably relate. We just slogged through a miserable week, which ended a terrible month, and closed out an awful quarter in… Read More

October 2022 Issue The Least Affordable Housing Market Since 1985 This Spun-Off Apartment REIT Pick Yields 4% Dividend Raisers & Special Dividends Portfolio Updates: STOR, VICI “Buy First” List $449,000. That’s the latest median home price nationwide. Of course, such figures vary widely from… Read More

Did the Labor Day holiday provide a much-needed reset in market sentiment? Let’s hope so. Stocks have managed to turn higher the past couple of days. Still, the fierce selloff that began three weeks ago has clipped about 8% off the major averages, undoing much of the progress made in… Read More

They measure twenty feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8.5 feet tall. These heavy-duty steel cubes can securely store up to 62,000 pounds of cargo, about 30 tons. September 2022 Issue We Need More Warehouses My Top Industrial REIT Pick Yields 4.2% Dividend Raisers & Special Dividends… Read More

We’ve been in a recession for six months now. That’s the early verdict from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The BEA determined that GDP declined 0.9% between April and June. That follows a shrinkage of 1.6% in the first quarter, meaning we’ve had two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. This… Read More

I don’t remember too much about 1970 (wasn’t even born for a few more years). But it doesn’t sound too groovy. The Vietnam war was raging. The Beatles broke up. And the Apollo 13 moon mission nearly ended in disaster, resulting in that famous call to mission control “Houston, we’ve… Read More