We’ve got an early start to the year-end tax-loss selling season to thank for this opportunity. Forget Year-End: The Best ...

Research from Bank of America shows that lower-income groups saw 4.7% year-over-year after-tax wage growth in August. That’s ...

But in March 2025, the Board cut it a whopping 32% from $1.565 to $1.0625 per share quarterly—from a juicy $6.26 to less so ...

We contrarians love it when the crowd mislabels a stock and tosses it overboard. We really love it when this happens to the same stock twice! Today we’re going to look at a perfect example: an ...

Today I want to talk about something we don’t touch on very often in these columns: an obscure (yet highly profitable) situation called a “tender offer.” I know the name sounds a bit stiff. But if one ...

This latest shift toward interest rate hikes has sent income investors into a tizzy. That’s great for us, because they’re tossing out one terrific fund kicking out a 7.8% dividend that’s grown. This ...

I shook my head in disbelief as I whispered this unfolding “riddle” to my coaching buddy in the chair next to me. We were at the YMCA fall basketball meeting, sweating it out in the preschool room.

In one corner of the income market, a “rubber band” is stretched about as far as it can go. When it snaps back, I expect it to catapult the prices of a select group of 10%+ payers much higher from ...

One thing we love to find as income investors? A situation where a double-digit dividend is coming our way—at an undeserved double-digit discount. Every now and then, a situation like that can get ...

Don’t look now, but crude oil is back over $100 a barrel. Prices are on fire, rising 20% since July, and the Strait of Hormuz is still shut. Diesel fuel, the transportation fossil fuel of record, sits ...

Covered-call funds give us something we demand at a time like this: outsized 8%+ payouts! And the last few months have shown us something else: These funds work—especially when you use them in a ...