Can the Treasury Department push long-term interest rates lower by buying long-term bonds?
Secretary Bessent is trying—and David Bahnsen has concerns about what happens when policymakers decide markets are “getting it wrong.”
Today’s Dividend Cafe breaks it down.
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Gold is scarce. Durable. A historic store of value.
But does that make it a good investment?
This week's Thoughts on Money looks beyond gold's recent performance to ask a more important question: What actually creates long-term wealth?
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Where should investors look for a reliable source of return?
Growth can be exciting. Market psychology can move prices. But neither necessarily provides the foundation investors may think they do.
In this Dividend Cafe, David Bahnsen explores a different approach: focusing on the profitability a company generates and how investors can participate in that profit.
It’s a simple distinction—but an important one.
https://t.co/7Ey5Py0hYK
AI spending is booming. But what happens when the bill comes due?
Today’s Dividend Cafe looks beyond the headlines at AI capex, the cost of capital, shifting economic data, the Fed, and what investors should be watching next.
https://t.co/hM2sKzQ4vK
What does a letter to a daughter leaving for college have to do with investing?
More than you might think.
This week's Dividend Cafe steps away from markets for a personal reflection on agency, responsibility, good decisions—and the kind of life we choose to build.
https://t.co/Njh2qVX5On
Should faith have a place in an economic argument?
David Bahnsen explains why his economic worldview can’t always be separated from the first principles that inform it—and why respectful disagreement matters.
https://t.co/aZZRD7AZYr
What conditions actually create lasting economic growth and prosperity?
This week’s Dividend Cafe goes beyond the latest data and headlines to examine 10 economic principles investors can’t afford to forget.
https://t.co/YwQ7e9MgZF
Less than 20 minutes to hear why I spent the last 25 years dedicated to an investment philosophy and an application of that philosophy that changed everything
This week’s Dividend Cafe looks at how and why I became a dividend growth investor. It looks at the reasons I came to believe that successful investors ought to #profitfromtheprofit
https://t.co/AJhm4U7ngX
When a Saturday Night Live writer got hired to write copy for American universities …
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
And I commend whoever was able to do it with a straight face. That takes professionalism.
The oft-cited idea that dividends are tax inefficient is not merely wrong; it is the opposite of true, as in, completely backwards. #ProfitfromtheProfit explains why. August 25 is right around the corner. #dividendinvesting#dividendgrowth https://t.co/d6eJrm3Dbc
Social media was ablaze over the weekend as Vice President Vance continued his streak of outrageous economic statements that quickly allowed defenders of markets to pounce (yours truly included), and allowed his sycophantic defenders to rush to his defense.