I focus on dividend stocks because I use them to create extra income streams. And I like to reinvest some of my dividends to ...

I got quite a few notes in the mailbag last week. One that piqued my interest was from JT who asked if there are any ETFs or ...

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Every Friday, get Ed D’Agostino’s take on the economic trends, policy shifts, and global events shaping markets. When there’s a new interview, you’ll get that too, delivered alongside the week’s ...

As you might imagine, I literally get scores of emails loaded with information every day. On Mondays, it can approach 100.

In the summer of 1944, with the war in Europe not yet won, the United States convened 44 nations at a resort hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and wrote the rules of the postwar world. The dollar ...

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 ...

We like to say markets don’t lie. That may be so, but they can certainly send mixed signals. It happened last week when President Trump announced tariff rates on several important trade partners not ...

I think I’m going to start a new 12-step program. I sense there are a lot of potential members. The meetings would start with something like this: “Hi. My name is John. I have Trump Confusion Syndrome ...

Financial market news has seemingly become all tariffs, all the time. The president’s plan, whatever it is, seems to spring from his belief that trade deficits are bad and must be eliminated. Tariffs ...

We talk frequently about the way central banks and governments affect the economy. In the grander scheme of things, though, whatever the Fed does is more like throwing a hand grenade into a large ...