Remember when all of your work data would fit on a single diskette? Or when you needed only a few floppy disks to back up your entire computer? Those times are long gone. Always the innovator, Steve Jobs left the diskette behind as far back as 1998: The iMac G3 — an innovative, plastic, bright, egg-shaped, all-in-one personal computer that was Steve Jobs’ first-ever consumer product as CEO of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) — didn’t contain a floppy disk drive. On non-Apple computers, built-in floppy disk drives all but disappeared on new computers by 2006. —Recommended Link— Can You Live On… Read More

Remember when all of your work data would fit on a single diskette? Or when you needed only a few floppy disks to back up your entire computer? Those times are long gone. Always the innovator, Steve Jobs left the diskette behind as far back as 1998: The iMac G3 — an innovative, plastic, bright, egg-shaped, all-in-one personal computer that was Steve Jobs’ first-ever consumer product as CEO of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) — didn’t contain a floppy disk drive. On non-Apple computers, built-in floppy disk drives all but disappeared on new computers by 2006. —Recommended Link— Can You Live On $1,400 A Month? You Might Have To That’s the average monthly benefit that most retirees see when they cash their Social Security check. To put that in perspective, the average living expenses of a retiree can be as much as twice that amount. But one group of investors is adding another $1,916 to that monthly payout. They’re not using a scheme or accounting trick. It’s a simple, powerful trading strategy known as The Dividend Trifecta. Click here to see how they are padding their retirement accounts while Social Security sinks further and further underwater. The death — or near-death… Read More

Have you noticed how investors — if not President Trump — have largely shrugged off recent interest rate hikes?At its latest meeting in June, the U.S. Federal Reserve, as expected, hiked its benchmark short-term rate by a quarter point, to a range of 1.75% to 2%. It was the second quarter-point rate increase this year. —Recommended Link— You May Not Like Hearing This… Everyone knows that Social Security is in bad shape. But most people don’t realize just how desperate the situation is… to fix Social Security benefits have to be cut by 22% immediately. Or payroll taxes have… Read More

Have you noticed how investors — if not President Trump — have largely shrugged off recent interest rate hikes?At its latest meeting in June, the U.S. Federal Reserve, as expected, hiked its benchmark short-term rate by a quarter point, to a range of 1.75% to 2%. It was the second quarter-point rate increase this year. —Recommended Link— You May Not Like Hearing This… Everyone knows that Social Security is in bad shape. But most people don’t realize just how desperate the situation is… to fix Social Security benefits have to be cut by 22% immediately. Or payroll taxes have to jump by 32%. So you’re facing pain whether you’re working OR retired. But there’s a way out. A program that can pay you $40,653 per year for the rest of your life. And it has nothing to do with the government. Check it out here. And the markets barely budged. No, scratch that: the markets have moved decisively higher. Large-cap stocks, represented by the S&P 500 index, are up more than 5% year-to-date. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a blue-chip index, is up 2% year-to-date, having recovered the losses it suffered early in the year. And the tech-heavy Nasdaq… Read More

Amid all the trade-related headlines these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the news and take your eye off the ball in terms of your overall investing strategy. —Recommended Link— Biggest Egomaniac On Wall Street? This CEO flat out loves himself. For the past five years, he’s been buying his own stock like crazy, spending $97 billion to retire 57% of his company’s shares. Of course, that means MUCH larger dividend checks for the rest of us. But you need to see why he’s doing this… and why there is so much more to come. Investors are… Read More

Amid all the trade-related headlines these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the news and take your eye off the ball in terms of your overall investing strategy. —Recommended Link— Biggest Egomaniac On Wall Street? This CEO flat out loves himself. For the past five years, he’s been buying his own stock like crazy, spending $97 billion to retire 57% of his company’s shares. Of course, that means MUCH larger dividend checks for the rest of us. But you need to see why he’s doing this… and why there is so much more to come. Investors are right to be concerned about this new threat. After all, when a trade war is allowed to continue unchecked, the most likely impact is negative for virtually all involved parties. #-ad_banner-#But I just recently told readers of my Game-Changing Stocks advisory that it’s still crucial for us to keep up with new developments — regulatory or scientific — that could define or impact the future of many industries. One important development that many investors likely missed is the new guidance on gene therapy (GT) that was released July 11. Coming from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for… Read More