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Owning These Stocks Is Like Burning Money

Do Not Buy These Stocks. Commercial Airlines Have Been Destroying Portfolio. Air traffic’s up. Airfare’s up. Permissible luggage weight is down. Yet 2024 isn’t off

The Ultimate Tech ETF

An All-in-One Big Tech Investment Tech had a big year in 2023, and for loyalists, it was rewarding after 2022’s portfolio-obliterating losses. Of the 11

Will You Avoid the Un-Retirement Trend?

Older Americans Are Returning to the Workforce in Record Numbers The new year always fills people with hope and optimism. It’s why we make resolutions.

A Year in Review

Not Every Pick’s a Winner, But Most Are It’s almost 2024, so what better time for a year-in-review than now? With the calendar about to

Should You Be Using a Robo-Advisor?

Algorithms, Not Stockbrokers, Deserve Your Attention There’s a reason characters like Gordon Gekko and Jordan Belfort live on in infamy throughout the decades: greed. It’s

Looking Ahead to 2024

Falling Gas Prices, Corporate Campaign Donations & Money Market Rates Like any year, 2023 has had its financial ups and downs: Last week, Merriam-Webster chose

2 E-Commerce Stocks for Cyber Monday

These Companies Profit From America’s Shopping Addiction Americans have an affinity for some things the rest of the world doesn’t quite understand. NASCAR, frivolous lawsuits

How to Find Stocks on Your Own

Financial Pundits Are Less Accurate Than Meteorologists Stock screener /ˈstŏk screen-erˈ/ noun: a search tool that helps investors find stocks that meet certain criteria based

3 Ways to Invest in America’s Food Surplus

The U.S. Produces More Food Than It Can Consume Hunger isn’t unique to America. It’s so widespread that the United Nations prioritized it second of

Taylor Swift & the Billionaire Club

But Celebrity Wealth Isn’t Your Goal Pop culture isn’t really our thing. Perhaps if TMZ had a financial vertical, it would be. But TMZ and

3 Garbage Stocks

Waste management companies make big $ hauling our refuse. America’s #1 in a lot of categories we wish we weren’t. Homelessness, for-profit prison population, per

Big Oil’s Big Comeback

Domestic Production Just Hit an All-Time High These days, you can’t drive anywhere without passing a Tesla. You can’t read financial news without seeing a

3 ETFs With BDE (Big Dividend Energy)

Income Investors Will Love These Funds According to a recent SoFi poll, of the five most popular investments right now, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ranked last

That’s a Wrap

Here’s How to Get Paid to Commute Office building occupancy remains negatively impacted by the pandemic-induced work-from-home revolution, and return-to-office mandates are gaining momentum as

Why October’s National Crypto Month

And why you should use it to diversify. October’s National Cryptocurrency Month. It’s also National Pizza Month. We prefer pizza, but no matter how you

Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

3 Ways to Invest in Autumn Summer officially ended this past Saturday. But for the women who’ve eagerly awaited autumn’s arrival, planning began weeks ago.

America’s (Investable) Healthcare Emergency

The Big Business of Sick People. Five years ago, a colleague was vacationing in Europe when he contracted a virus that landed him in a

How to Beat the Housing Blues

The USDA Could Be the Solution. Home affordability in the U.S. is the lowest it’s been since 1984. For context, that year, Karate Kid was

Capitalize on Calamity

Insurance in Florida Is a Disaster of Its Own. Last Wednesday, Hurricane Idalia crept up Florida’s Gulf Coast and made landfall as a Category 4

The Writers’ Strike, AI & Hollywood Greed

Generative AI is coming for your job. Invest while you can. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is center stage, as writers across the

The Market Doesn’t Care About Your Opinion

Your 2 Cents Are Blocking You From Enormous Gains When you think of the market, think of your reserved, elderly family member at the end

America’s Credit Card Crisis

If your credit card isn’t paying YOU, you’re doing it wrong. For the first time ever, America’s credit card debt has eclipsed $1 trillion. That’s

4 Stocks to Commodify Your Portfolio

Last week, we discussed commodities, what drives their prices and how they can indicate investable opportunities. This week, we’re going to apply that lesson. But

Understanding Commodity Supply and Demand

Your Breakfast Is About to Get More Expensive

Understanding Commodity Supply & Demand Is Understanding Opportunity Commodity /ˈkuh·maa·duh·teeˈ/ noun: a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such

Give Your Portfolio Some Royalty

Over the past 40 years, stocks that increased or initiated dividends produced an average annual return of 13.74% vs. a 9.6% return for non-dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend & Win

Since 1930, dividends account for 40% of stock market returns and 54% during decades with elevated inflation. Dividend /ˈdivəˌdend/ noun: a sum of money regularly

Top 7 Crowdfunding Platforms

Crowdfunding /ˈkrowd·fuhn·duhngˈ/ noun the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically

From baseball cards to wine collections, alternative assets introduce fun to portfolios. Alternative Asset/ˈaal·tur·nuh·tuhv a·suhtˈ/ nouninvestments that fall outside of the traditional asset classes commonly