Rumor is that the stock market is off to its worst start ever. Or so I hear from the commentariat stoking the fear quotient again.

If only more people took satisfaction in being able to buy stocks for less than they could two weeks ago, it would be a drastically different market.

A bizarro market. Continue Reading…

Right before the year ended, the folks at Dividend Reference put together their top 50 dividend articles for 2015, including yours truly (see #12).

I’m dividend agnostic myself, but I certainly understand the draw. It’s hard to turn down a good company, at a great price, that also pays a consistent and growing dividend.

Since I wasn’t posting last week, I thought I’d share it now since it is a great collection worth perusing when you have some free time. Continue Reading…

Every year is filled with exciting, scary, stressful, eye-catching, all important headlines that turn out to be nothing special in the end. There were a few this year, but the big one was the recurring theme around the Fed raising rates.

Well, we can finally toss this one in the nothing special pile too because it’s official – a 0.25% fed funds rate hike was announced Wednesday. The Fed dragged out the most telegraphed move of 2015, until December…and the world didn’t end. Continue Reading…