No doubt govts. will need to keep receiving and indeed raising tax revenue to keep funding the ever increasing spend on defence, infrastucture, social security, health, education etc.
Alan Kohler has an interesting take on the…
I use a quality scoring system modeled after David Van Knapp’s Quality Snapshots, an elegant system for assessing the quality of dividend growth stocks. This article describes my (updated) quality scoring system and how I rank dividend growth stocks by quality scores. It also explains how my system differs from Quality Snapshots. The main purpose…
By Lawrence G. McMillan The impetus for this column came from the fact that the S&P futures took a beating last Monday (January 19th, 2026) on the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King. Of course, it was only a partial session (ending at 11am) and did not include any stock trading on the NYSE at all….
If you’ve been just waiting for the TSX Index to enter a bear market or deep correction (let’s say between 13-19%) before putting money to work on stocks, you might be waiting around for a while longer. And this latest vicious melt-up rally since Iran war fears peaked might inspire you to chase, even with…
The catalyst for this blog is a comment from a viewer of my YouTube channel. “… older video says you did not lose playing reit. need your help man. it is starting to feel a bit strange already.” “I made a lot of money investing in REITs but that was during the 15 years when…
Gold keeps running despite the strength in the US dollar. Oil is looking shaky and could collapse below USD$70. A spike in the gold/oil ratio could put a rocket under gold stocks and Murray shows you why. The gold rally continues to defy US dollar strength. Meanwhile, oil prices are looking ready to plummet further….
Sound bite for Twitter is: Dividend Growth Utility. Results of stock price testing is that the stock price is relatively reasonable. Debt Ratios are shows that the company has a lot of debt, however, most utilities do. The Dividend Payout Ratios (DPR) are generally high, with the DPR for CFPS is fine. The current dividend…