Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been speaking about a coming pandemic for 5 years now. He believes we need a vaccine to put all this behind us. As we move further and further along in our battle with COVID-19, a lot of the discussion has naturally turned to what our exit strategy will be. While […]
A certain sector of bank stock investors, those who invest to collect dividends, don’t seem bothered no matter how much money they lose on stocks, but hands-off dividends. There seems to be no limit to how far many investors are willing to go in order to keep collecting their quarterly dividend payments. They will hold […]
The battle against the coronavirus is being fought on two fronts, the health one and the economic one. Former Senator Jim DeMint is one of the few seriously looking at both. In the frenzy that has developed over our trying to limit the number of deaths that COVID-19, the points of view out there have […]
Steven Sears has been writing columns promoting options trading for individual investors since 2006. He’s now suggesting that they use options to replace dividends. Dividends have always had a special place in the hearts of many investors, a love affair that continues even in the face of the economic crisis that we are in the […]
Many investors, including both individuals and institutional investors, get excited about the opportunities that high market volatility present. We need to be careful out there. You don’t really know how confused that you are if you are among the confused. In order to be able to tell, you need some sort of benchmark to compare […]
During the last financial crisis, mortgage lending was at the forefront. This one is far broader. Mortgages are caught up in this big net as well, but not as much as some think. Those who remember the financial crisis of 2008 will have a pretty good idea of how big of a deal the mortgage […]
Oil stocks have been infamously bad for a long time, but nothing on the scale of what has happened lately. Oil is simply too important to be kept down this low for all that long. Our economy has run into a brick wall lately, which has a lot of investors scurrying around for opportunities. Among […]
Among the over $2 trillion in the new Cares Act is a couple of provisions to help people with their retirement accounts during the virus panic. These changes deserve to stay. The coronavirus scare has had many people scrambling to make ends meet due to a loss of income from the widespread shutdown that the […]
David Hammer of bond king Pimco is doing his best to drum up more interest in municipal bonds. Their little scare may be over, but there’s little to be excited about here. There are three main types of bonds that people can invest in, which are sovereign bonds issued by federal governments, such as U.S. […]
Even in the best of times, there are always people who remain bearish, and during full moons like this, really come out to howl at it. Economist Charles Dumas is leading the way. Hardly anyone would claim that we are out of the woods yet with the coronavirus panic response. As long as this continues […]