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Dividend “Suspensions” Not Dividend Cuts Coming Fast

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The liberal electronic and print media will shortly be howling – with cartoon-size bold headlines – about dividend cuts. We just began the second quarter of the year. Third-quarter earnings reports will, thanks to the lying Chinese, be breathtakingly ugly. And the media will be out in full force glomming on to disruption. Words like recession and depression will fill the media channels. Greedy and grasping stockbrokers will be out, in full-scale hyena mode, yelling, "sell, sell, sell." Serious, long-term, compound interest focused mavens will follow my lead by engaging in a quiet, … [Read more...]

Working Seven Days a Week in Sunny Key West

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Value, dividends, interest, and compounding have formed the foundation I have given to my investment subscribers and consulting clients since 1964. For the first time since I began following the guidance of Ben Graham back in the early 1960s, I am able today to invest in some dividend payers that would have put a smile on Ben’s face. For me and I hope for each of my longtime clients, there is much to be thankful for. There is a bright light at the end of the current long, dark tunnel. I don’t expect in my lifetime to see such values again. And I do not plan to miss one minute on the hunt … [Read more...]

My Three-Week-Long Investing Program

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I am ramping it up over the month of April into May. Our Young's Dynamic Maximizers portfolio (a fixed income alternative) is actually up 2.5% YTD, or an annual annualized 7.5%. I find this performance most encouraging. My own largest fixed income holding (individual bonds, while clearly a superior option are not ideal for me as I am on the road and out of touch at annoying times) a full-faith-and-credit-pledge GNMA’s-centric fund is ahead by 3.0%, or an annualized 12.0%. I am happy with this. GLD, one of my gold proxies is ahead by 6.5%, or an annualized 26%. My Swiss currency … [Read more...]

Richard C. Young Explains: How to Invest Like Einstein

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Originally posted October 23, 2018. When asked to name the greatest invention in history, Albert Einstein responded, compound interest. Over three decades ago I started our family investment counsel firm focusing on the miracle of compound interest to help retired and soon to be retired investors just like you. My short and quick goal was, as it remains today, safety of principal and a consistent flow of income through investors’ long and peaceful retirements. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, when the wizard Gandalf asked Bilbo Baggins to take part in an adventure, the Hobbit told … [Read more...]

Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money

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Originally posted October 17, 2017. With the exception of the large sums of money that I invested in zero-coupon treasuries (Benham Target Funds) in the 1980s and 1990s, I have never invested based on how much money I expected to make. I work to make money. And I save to keep every dime of the money I have worked a lifetime to earn. There was a day when I had darn few of those dimes. Those days made an indelible impression on me, and will so forever. I invest with a rolling 10-year average annual return portfolio target of a balanced 4+%. This modest target is based on the normalized … [Read more...]

Coronavirus Snapped the Cord on the Market Elevator

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For the past ten years, the stock market has been an elevator that has only gone up. Now the cord has snapped. What floor are you falling from? Here’s how I explained what I call “elevator investing” some years back. I wrote: Elevator Investing Where do you want to be when the cord snaps? I often think of risk management with a simple elevator analogy. In the investment process, I quantify risk first. Then I evaluate potential gains. Just envision, if you were in an elevator and the cord snapped, where would you be better off? Dropping from the second floor or the 10th floor? Makes your … [Read more...]

Here is Your Family’s Guide to the Coronavirus

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I visit Dr. Ward at least once a week when Debbie and I are in Newport for the Summer. -- Dick Young. Dear Patient, As promised, I am sending this email to share some useful information that I have found over the last week. As one of your healthcare providers, it is my intention to provide you with knowledge to keep you calm and healthy. I am lucky enough to have access to information coming out of Wuhan, China where this disease began. The treatments used on the front lines were a combination of western pharmaceuticals along with Chinese Herbal Medicine and shown to be quite effective. … [Read more...]

Never Bet the House

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Investing is not betting. There are people who buy stocks to invest in them, and people who buy stocks to bet on them. Never be the latter. After the crash of 1987, I compared that to the surprise defeat of “sure thing” Sonny Liston by Muhammed Ali. I wrote: “Bet the house on Liston…it’s a sure thing.” Once again, what could never happen, happened. Once again, the underdog defeated the favorite. And once again, people learned — many the hard way — that there are few “sure things” in life. The lead quote appeared in a provocative Wall Street Journal ad run by FGIC (municipal bond … [Read more...]

Trump Knocks it Out of the Park with Coronavirus Speech

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President Trump gave a speech at 3:30 today, declaring a National State of Emergency to speed the coronavirus response. Trump mobilized the private sector and slashed regulations and antiquated red tape designed for a different time to increase the amount of testing that can be done. There will be a website ready by Sunday that will help Americans decide if they need to be tested, and where they can go to get a test. Companies including Wal-mart, Walgreens, CVS, Target, Roche, Becton Dickinson, Thermo Fisher, SYNERGY HomeCare, and Quest Diagnostics have volunteered to help millions … [Read more...]