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3 Ways To Build An Armadillo-Armored Portfolio of Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks
In the entire history of the American capital markets, this fact remains true: there has never been a year in which 10% of the companies that have been raising their dividends annually for more than 25...
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What If Twitter Stock Were Valued Like Visa?
Investors in Twitter stock have recently learned the hard way how volatility strikes when you decide to purchase a company that has no readily identifiable profits under its umbrella—in other words,...
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Visa’s Profit Numbers Continue To Awe Me
To do something successfully, you have to properly execute a two-step process. First, you must acquire the information that is necessary to find the success, and secondly, you must actually—well—do it....
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A 5% Junk Bond Bubble: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In rare situations, it actually is better to sell off the stock of companies you own rather than try and live off the income. For those of you who pay attention to market history, you know that we are...
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What You Can Learn From Finance Writer Rocco Pendola
When I first began writing finance articles at Seeking Alpha, I was immediately drawn to a contributor named Rocco Pendola. Aside from the fact that he has the right taste in music (like me, he’s a...
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The Only Life-Changing Insight On Bond Investments I’ve Ever Had
I was recently reading through some of the financial statements of Altria, the tobacco company that is either a cause of death or wealth depending on whether you created a relationship with it as a...
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Three Life-Changing Investment Lessons From Conoco Phillips
Over at Seeking Alpha, I wrote an article about what I expected to see from Conoco Phillip’s dividend policy over the next five years. My argument in a nutshell was this: Conoco chose to keep its...
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Bank of America Stock And Gold Speculation
Two thoughts for the day: Number 1. Here’s the problem with contrarian investing: even if you read the books and agree with the abstract notions of doing things like “buying fifty-cent dollars”, it’s...
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The Vanguard Equity Income Fund: A Delightful Lifelong Holding
Reader “Matt” from this site recently pointed out one of his favorite investments to me: The Vanguard Equity Income Fund, which has an expense ratio at 0.30% and has the stated purpose of owning common...
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No, You Should Not Sell Your Website
This is probably the most important topic that I’ve yet to ever discuss in any of my financial writings: 100% profit growth does not lead to the same results for every type of business. Let me give an...
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Upcoming Changes To The Blog
Hi All. I wanted to give everyone a quick update about the future plans for the site. Here’s the dilemma I’ve been needing to solve for awhile: How can I avoid those inevitable two to three month...
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The “Follow Your Passion” Career Advice
From what I can tell, there are two types of parents out there when it comes to advising and strategizing with their kids when it comes to selecting a major in college and finding something to do with...
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Fortunes Are Built By Being Exceptional In One Of Three Ways
Halleluiah! Break out the tambourines and shake them. Break out the fireworks and make sure you don’t shake them. On the day dedicated to celebrating American exceptionalism, I wanted to point out one...
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The $50,000 Trust Fund
There are going to be some kids, somewhere, born in 2042 that are going to have a great head start in life by getting a free education because of the very intelligent decisions of a man and his wife in...
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Royal Dutch Shell: When Not To Worry About Dividend Cuts
In 1907, Royal Dutch Petroleum merged with Shell Transport & Trading to create a counterweight that could hold its own against John Rockefeller’s growing Standard Oil in the United States that was...
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AT&T Dividends: Great Place For Starter Retirement Income
It’s on my to-do list over at Seeking Alpha, but I really need to get around to writing a full fleshed article on AT&T sooner rather than later. I haven’t touched on it much in my three years of...
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Coca-Cola Has Not Finished Minting Millionaires Yet
Back when I started writing for Seeking Alpha in 2011, I noted the obvious that everyone else in the stock commentary blogosphere knows: Coca-Cola is a damn good company to own for long periods of...
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Tom Lewis Once Had A Great Quote About The American Stock Market
I’ve never written up a profile of him, but one of these days, I’m going to get around to doing a full fledged admiration piece on the career of Tom Lewis who is best known for running the real estate...
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Want An Investing Idea? Try Visa, Visa, Visa
In 2008, someone who found themselves purchasing stock in Visa during its IPO year could have peered into the annual report and learned that each share represented $2.25 in profit. Not bad. Fast...
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How Many Different Assets Would Have To Go Away To Make Me Fearful About...
That question, right there, is what diversification really boils down to—a lot of financial planners say things like, you need twenty stocks, or you need thirty stocks, or whatever it may be—but that...
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