I joined Peggy Tuck this morning on Straight Talk Money to chat about Dow 20,000, crude oil prices, and how to allocate your portfolio as we start 2017.   Rodney Johnson joined us for the second segment to chat about Trump’s economic reforms, GDP growth, and that most dreaded of all words, deflation.   In...Read More

The following is an excerpt of a piece I wrote for InvestorPlace: The second half of 2016 was not kind to income investors. As bond yields rose, the prices of virtually everything paying an income stream got slammed. Some of my favorite dividend stocks, REITs and closed-end funds fell by 20% or more… at a...Read More