I joined Peggy Tuck this morning on Straight Talk Money. First on the agenda: We talk about the still simmering trade tensions and what they might mean for the market. We then dig into the Fed and what new Chairman Jerome Powell’s plans for interest makes might be:   Up next, we dig into Facebook’s...Read More

And here’s a few more of my favorites. Links followed by excerpts. Enjoy! Play Music, Get Rich As a kid, I used to tease my dad on road trips for tuning in to the classic rock station. It just seemed so stereotypically old-man-ish. Yet as I approach my 40th birthday, and the inevitable midlife crisis...Read More

Here are a handful of my favorite posts from Economy & Markets over the past year. Links followed by excerpts. Enjoy!   How My Friend Retired at 40 I very rarely smoke cigars anymore, but one of the benefits – I would go so far as to call it a health benefit – is that...Read More

It’s morally wrong to enjoy the benefits of something while leaving others to accept all the risks. This is the central theme of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s latest work, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, a book that should be required reading for anyone in public office or in any position of authority or...Read More

  The following is an excerpt from 5 “Oddball” Dividend Stocks With Big Yields, originally published on Kiplinger’s. It’s not the easiest market out there for income investors. With bond yields being depressed for so many years (and still extremely low by any historical standard) investors have scoured the globe for yield, which has pushed...Read More