Investing Strategies

Forget Tech; Invest Here Instead

Forget Tech; Invest Here Instead

Once again, technology stocks are grabbing the financial headlines. They have powered most of the gains in the S&P 500 in 2023. In fact, Apple and Microsoft alone now account for a record 13.5% of the index—the most ever for the top two stocks. While it’s tempting to buy big tech right now, the safer […]

How to Play the Upcoming U.S. Manufacturing Boom

How to Play the Upcoming U.S. Manufacturing Boom

The U.S. seems poised for a manufacturing boom as companies tap into government subsidies, pledging to spend tens of billions of dollars on new projects. The Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—passed within days of each other last August—together include more than $400 billion in tax credits, grants and loans designed […]

90% of All Millionaires Became So Through With This One Method

90% of All Millionaires Became So Through With This One Method

Real estate has created thousands of millionaires in the United States. The great robber baron and millionaire prototype Andrew Carnegie once said, “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of […]

Step One to Building Wealth the Right Way

Step One to Building Wealth the Right Way

This week in Hidden Profits Report, I’m introducing a new feature. This is a topic I will revisit from time to time when I see the type of extraordinary opportunities I am going to talk about today. This part of Hidden Profits is for investors who want to get rich. I don’t mean “hitting the […]

The Truth About Real Estate Investments

The Truth About Real Estate Investments

As the commercial real estate doom and gloom continue to circle around us, I had a chance to talk with Jay Hatfield of InfraCap Funds last week.  Jay is one of the best preferred stock and income investing ETF managers, and he delivers solid returns for income investors in all the funds he manages. We […]

Choose the Form of Your “Destructor”

Choose the Form of Your “Destructor”

In the classic movie Ghostbusters, Gozer the Destructor appears in the form of the StayPuft marshmallow man, and the end of humanity is narrowly avoided thanks to the high-risk maneuvers of the ghostbusting adventurers. In the stock market, the form of the Destructor changes with frightening regularity: For much of last year, it was inflation […]

Don’t Miss This Special Profit Opportunity

Don’t Miss This Special Profit Opportunity

In February of last year, a private equity fund managed by Standard General announced that it would purchase Tegna (TGNA), which owns of television stations, digital media platforms, and marketing services, for $24 a share. Private equity giant Apollo Global Management (APO) invested in the entity that Standard General created to buy Tegna, and Tegna […]