Mauldin Economics Dividend Digest

I’m writing you from the first day of the MoneyShow TradersEXPO in Las Vegas. I figured since I’m in Sin City I have to talk about my favorite sin-vestment to keep on your radar.

Valentine’s Day is the second biggest holiday after Christmas for exchanging greeting cards. It’s also one of the most popular days for marriage proposals. That means consumer discretionary dollars flowing out of wallets and into the economy.

Most of the stocks that you’ll see here and in the mainstream financial news are common shares. They aren’t, however, the only kinds of shares out there. Some companies issue preferred shares.

I am incredibly bullish on telecoms. Literally everything we do revolves around data. It’s all made possible by data whizzing from one point to another through the datasphere.

I was recently talking to my mentor about why I “stuck with” dividend investing.

Did you see that Walgreens (WBA) cut its dividend nearly 50% earlier this month? And just like that, the Dividend Aristocrat’s 47-year streak of annual dividend increases came crashing down.