Category: Investigations
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Fooled by Dividends
There are some enticing dividend yields out there right now as many of stocks have been hammered. Several readers have recently asked me about investing in dividend stocks. I’m afraid many have misconceptions about the purpose of dividend stocks. So I’d like to share my thoughts.
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The Approaching Energy Shock
Energy = food. Energy = money. Energy = life.
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US Government is Going Broke
Deficit spending out of control
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World Events Leading to WW3
Prepare for a multi-front global war
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A generation in Canada is destroyed
Unless housing prices crash significantly, Gen Z will never succeed in Canada.
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The Contractual 8.5% Return
I like to look at high yield bonds using a risk spectrum, on which they fall somewhere between investment grade fixed income and equities.
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Is This the Start of a New Secular Bull Market?
FOMO is real. When you see your idiot neighbor earning 30%+ returns you want a piece of the action. Investors of all stripes are drawn into bubbles. Of course, they all go in thinking they’ll get out at the top. Few do.
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AI Scientists Warn of Extinction Threat
Some argue that AI will never be sentient or will never match human intelligence. That argument is irrelevant to the threat posed by AI.
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Portfolio is Second Biggest Lifetime Expense
Simple tips to save hundreds of thousands of dollars
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A Utopian Future?
Could AI be the catalyst for the next human renaissance?
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Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says,…
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The Death of Marriage
25% of 40 year olds in the US have never been married