Throughout the year you donate to charities and then either save the emailed receipt or try and remember to save the mailed receipt that the non-profits send out. Does this process seem similar to anyone else? For years I did this and tried to make it as easy as possible...
In the last few months I’ve completely changed my mind on the “crypto” industry. Here’s the backstory: I’m hoping it wasn’t the case for any of you reading this, but I lost some money trusting Celsius with my stablecoins. Fortunately, after the Celsius bankruptcy, I promptly removed all the crypto...
Cryptocurrencies have been up and down over the last few years. Since I know many of you have invested a little bit of your more speculative portfolio into cryptocurrencies, I thought I’d share information about this new project that I just learned about. It showcases one of the best use...
I’m still alive and investing. I can’t believe it has been over a year since I last posted. We are currently in the process of building our house so all of my taxable brokerage is currently in cash and ready to pay for the house. I haven’t been able to...
I was researching this topic prior to the November 2020 election. At that time, the consensus was that there would be a “blue wave” with Democrats picking up more seats in the House and winning a clear majority in the Senate, in addition to winning the Presidency. (While I will...
Since I’ve been fairly quiet on the blog front, I wanted to give an update on finances and how things are going in 2020. 2020 has been interesting from a financial perspective. It started out fairly innocuous. My business had another good end of the year for 2019 and we...
Scott @ Two Investing: Today’s post is a guest post from our friends at Sure Dividend about the benefits of dividends stocks to a long-term investor. Without spoiling the ending, I love their example dividend paying stock. It’s in the biotech space and not only pays a great dividend but...
Circumstances relating to COVID-19 and the need for cash to pay for a new house led to me sell all the stocks in my brokerage account.
This April I received $284.05, compared with $333.00 in April 2019. The decrease comes from a lower number of companies paying me this month. Symbol Dividend Amount CSCO $45.62 DEO $59.98 KO $40.90 O $22.11 VTR $115.44 April 2020 Dividends Total dividends for April 2020: $284.05Total cumulative dividend income for...
The recent market volatility relating to Covid-19 has been difficult. In the longterm, I am optimistic that the economy will recover and stock prices will rebound. Another decade from now, I bet this period will be looked back on as a good buying opportunity that developed amidst a horrible global...
