I was sitting at Mackenzies Bar & Kitchen on the canal in Bristol, UK, with a friend. Just before 7pm, she got a text from ...

I talk about the Federal Reserve often in these letters, and for good reasons. Fed policy has enormous influence on the ...

"No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do." — William Levitt, developer of Levittown, the first mass-produced American suburb Google searches for "can I afford a ...

Clearly, there must be a typo in that headline. I’m the one who is always preaching about getting the yield you deserve. So, ...

Last week I noted the problems of sitting down with a blank screen and trying to figure out what to write. This week I have ...

I have a lot of short conversations about dividend stocks. They go something like this: “Oh, your specialty is dividend ...

"Violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it... The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character." — Will Durant, The Lessons of ...

Next month I will begin my 27 th year of writing this letter. The way I write, how I come up with topics, when I write have all changed over time. But one thing is consistent: when I sit down to write ...

As I sat down to start my work week, I realized that I didn’t eat a single hot dog over the holiday weekend to celebrate the 250th birthday of America. Instead, I sat at Otto’s Pub and Brewery in ...

When we talk about inflation, the conversation usually centers on periods (like now) when inflation is especially high. Those are certainly problematic. But we can overlook a possibly bigger problem: ...

The Social Security Administration recently gave us their annual report with a few blockbuster footnotes. We all know that Social Security as it is currently constructed will run out of money in the ...