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Mush

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In this upside-down world of ours, the only asset class which reliably sucks is the one you’d least expect: precious metals. Seriously, if you took a time machine back to the year 2011, when gold was over $2,000 per ounce, and told them that the U.S. government was going to bring up another $10 trillion in debt…………whoever you told would sell everything they had to buy all the gold and silver they could afford. And yet, incredibly, that would be just about the only money-losing asset they could muster.

As I type this, gold is down over $30 per ounce. For the past thirteen months, gold has done nothing but fall.

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Her Skin Gleamed Blue

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It’s interesting to think back to when you first connected with a certain cultural artifact. It could be a musician, a band, a comic, a writer…………any person who creates. My love of Beethoven, for example, came from the unlikely source of watching A Clockwork Orange, which isn’t exactly considered a fundamental introduction to classical music. I got into Prokofiev by watching Woody Allen’s Love and Death. And so forth. We all have our different tales.

In the late 1980s, I regularly attended the Sick & Twisted Animation Festival, and the item below was one of the entries. That’s all it took to get me into Was Not Was. Enjoy!

Boost Your Income Using Poor Man’s Covered Calls on Dividend Aristocrats

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Today I want to discuss how to create a portfolio of Dividend Aristocrats using a poor man’s covered call strategy.

In a market environment shaped by low rates and low yields in the fixed income arena, Dividend Aristocrats using a poor man’s covered call approach might be an attractive alternative for some investors, especially those seeking steady income.

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