Category: Blog
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The Yield – Week ending May 14, 2021 Ep. 4
In addition to news and dividend information, on this episode, I cover my Low Yield portfolio.
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Consumer retail sales surge
Here’s some good news. Seems people are out there continuing to spend. Retail sales are up. Retail sales—a measure of purchases at stores, at restaurants and online—overall were unchanged last month from March, the Commerce Department reported Friday. That kept spending at the same pace set by March’s upwardly revised 10.7% advance, which was influenced by…
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Low Yield Portfolio
Here is a review of my Low Yield Portfolio. It is the first account I created when heading down the path of investing for income. Being an IRA I cannot touch the money until I turn 59 1/2 years old (I’m 54 now) therefore all of the dividends received get reinvested. This portfolio is designed…
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Large U.S. banks poised to loosen requirements to get credit cards
Banks are looking to share data about customers in order to issue them credit cards. While good for some people who need credit cards and are responsible this is likely to open the floodgates to easy credit for people who maybe should not have it. It reminds me of relaxed mortgage requirements from 2005 through…
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It was a rough day today and may get much more rough in the near future
The last couple of days have not been kind and today was worse than yesterday. But, in context it’s not all that bad if you consider where the market was at the beginning of 2020 versus where it is today. All that said I think investors should be extremely cautious right now because sometimes when…
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Consumer prices rising a result of government COVID-19 response
Prices are rising sharply. Sharply in relative terms as compared to the past decade or more. But what did we expect when governments of the world shut everything down for COVID-19? Economic activity stopped. In order to keep things propped up stimulus was passed that far exceeded anything seen in modern times. People at first…