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Everyone knows shopping has changed forever. Online shopping is in, bricks-and-mortar stores are out.

Maybe not forever, but with cities, counties, and states prone to stay-at-home orders, no thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, shopping in physical stores is less appealing than ever.

Shopping malls, with their higher density, which get closed quicker than standalone stores and take longer to open, have been hit even harder by the pandemic and changing consumer habits.

For malls, suffering systemically, it’s the end of an era and the end of the line for many of them.

However, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t opportunity in their downfall…

Is COVID-19 speeding up the death of cash? Check out this sign spotted at a huge chain store…

It sounds noble and righteous – even charitable – on the surface. But the devil’s in the details…

Last week, equity markets roared back to life in a shortened trading week. The Dow Jones climbed 3.2% on the week, the S&P 500 climbed 4%, and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 4.6%.

That healthy rise came on the heels of the previous week’s losses, which came on the heels of the previous week’s gains, which came on the heels of the previous week’s losses. Which collectively amounted to a lot of sideways, go-nowhere action for the Dow, the S&P, and the Russell 2000.

But not so for the Nasdaq Composite, which just keeps defying gravity.

The back and forth in equity markets has been about risk-on versus risk-off, which has been about Covid-on versus Covid-off, which forces the fight between stimulus-on versus stimulus-off.

Of course, the Nasdaq Honey Badger don’t care; it keeps eating capital inflows and getting fatter.

You don’t have to be a sophisticated investor to avoid making big investment errors. You just need to avoid making these five mistakes.

The story of Independence Day isn’t one of victory. That’s what most folks get wrong. Here’s the real story… and what it means for our freedom today.

To celebrate your financial freedom this Fourthwsq of July I’ve got five dividend paying stocks you can retire on.

You’ll know they’re great recommendations if you read my last two Total Wealth articles.

In the first article of this three-part series I showed you how to look through a few simple, easily found metrics to determine if a company’s dividend is safe, and by how much.

But you won’t have to do any calculations today, I’ll give you the safety-stretch numbers.

In the second article in this series I told you how trillions of dollars of buybacks are going to be converted to dividends in the future. Because the public’s outraged at companies manipulating their stock prices higher to compensate executives while workers’ wages stagnate. Because politicians are going on the warpath over the same issues and how the last tax cut juiced up buybacks by another trillion dollars. And because dividend payments are good for shareholders and the economy.

Here in the third and final installment in the series are five dividend paying stocks you can retire on.

We read a story this week about a woman with 44 kids. We hope her tale opens some eyes.

Investors looking for good dividend yielding stocks don’t typically expect much price appreciation.

That’s going to change, probably sooner than anyone expects.

Here’s why dividend paying stocks have been playing second fiddle to growth stocks, what really drives growth, and how one all-important manipulative “growth factor” is poised to be flipped over to the benefit of dividend paying companies and their stockholders…

If you follow this simple strategy, your wealth will increase. You’ll be on your way to true financial freedom.