America Today: Tough Times in a Beautiful Land

America Today: Tough Times in a Beautiful Land

Amid all the chaos in America today, there’s an old familiar tune worth repeating.


20 Stocks Paying Double-Digit Dividends in 2022

20 Stocks Paying Double-Digit Dividends in 2022

by Manward Research Team Income investors are constantly hunting for yield. It’s one of the most common things Manward Financial Digest readers ask about. They want our expert opinion – honed over decades spent researching and writing about stocks, bonds and options – on where they can find the highest-yielding dividend plays today. And we […]


Runaway Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

Runaway Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

Like a runaway train the market kept barreling ahead last week, make that last month, make that the last two months, actually make that since the March 23, 2020 lows.

The S&P 500 ended last week up 3%. It ‘s up a whopping 17.79% in the last two months. And is up a mind-bending 36.06% from its March lows.

So far so good. But, there ‘s a problem. No one knows where the train tracks lead.

Markets could have gotten off track on Friday. The Dow was down about 300 points as nervous investors pared positions ahead of President Trump ‘s “conference.” But, instead of slamming China and ratcheting up rhetoric, or tossing trade war and tariff threats, the President just pointed a finger and repeated his displeasure with the Mainland ‘s heavy handedness over Hong Kong ‘s future.

And back up went stocks.

What pre-conference selling revealed is how jittery investors are, but there ‘s a lot out there that matters


Retail Investors Have Been Beating Hedge Funds: Is That Dangerous?

Retail Investors Have Been Beating Hedge Funds: Is That Dangerous?

Just about everything in our lives is different, no thanks to the novel coronavirus.

One glaring difference is how retail investors have plunged into the stock market since COVID-19 slammed markets and shutdown the country.

While that’s different enough, what’s vastly different is retail investors, instead of typically selling at the bottom of a plunge, started buying early, have been buyers all the way up, and according to Goldman Sachs research, with their whacky list of favorite stocks have beaten hedge funds and their top holdings.

Since a ZeroHedge article earlier this week pointed out, “After years of trying and failing to sucker in retail investors into the stock market to allow a long-overdue distribution from top shareholders to mom and pop bagholders, as has been the trend heading into every prior recession…” maybe it’s time to ask, with stocks racing higher heading into another recession, is the new retail trend dangerous?

The answer is “no,” it’s not dangerous, at least not yet. But, “yet” could be any day now.

Here’s what you need to know is going on and what it means to your Total Wealth.


Markets Are Telling Us They Want To Go Higher: Here’s What to Do

Markets Are Telling Us They Want To Go Higher: Here’s What to Do

There’s a difference.

A rally won’t let you down. In fact, a rally will give you an opportunity to make money, hand over fist, four days a week… and it only takes one hour per day.

My friend and colleague, Andrew Keene, has devised a system that can make you four-figure windfalls, every day, four days a week.

And it only takes an hour, every day.

You don’t have to take my word for it. Just ask Steve Milton, who made $250,000 with Andrew’s system.

Or Carrie Saunders, who made $3,000… three days in a row.

Or Mark Befano, who made $706,000 in only one year.

Andrew’s system made it possible for these folks to grab mind-boggling windfalls, and he can do the same for you.

He’s willing to share his secrets, all you have to do is click here.

Now, here’s what the market’s trying to tell us.. and what to do about it right now


Drawing a Line Between Our Connections

Drawing a Line Between Our Connections

When we wrote about the greatest form of wealth, we never would have guessed it would be such a controversial topic.


Capital Wave Forecast: Risk On, and On, and On, And…

Capital Wave Forecast: Risk On, and On, and On, And…

Summer’s not officially here yet, but the heat sure is. Markets are sizzling and investors are feeling it.

It’s Risk On, all the way.

Until of course the heat wave investors are enjoying gets dumped on by any number of named storms brewing out on the near horizon.

What storms?

Bella-Bankruptcy, Brad-Breadth, Elanor-Unemployment, Maggie-Mortgage, Ralph-Retail, and Ollie-Overpriced. They’re just tropical depressions according to bullish forecasters. At least they are for now.

So, get your Risk On!


A Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Could Sink the Stock Market

A Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Could Sink the Stock Market

Thousands of American companies are sliding towards bankruptcy. Many of them are publicly traded companies.

The Federal Reserve’s buying some failing companies’ bonds in an effort to keep them alive.

It’s not going to work.

The coming tidal wave of bankruptcies will overwhelm the Fed’s rescue efforts and could sink the stock market.

Here’s what’s coming our way.


Banks Are the Economy’s and the Market’s Bellwether: How to Read Them and Play Them

Banks Are the Economy’s and the Market’s Bellwether: How to Read Them and Play Them

To make money in the stock market investors need to know how bad the recession’s going to be and how the market’s going to react to economic conditions.

One surefire way to gauge what’s going on in the economy and gauge what the market thinks about economic prospects, as well as divine the market’s direction, is by watching bank stocks.

Banks are a bellwether for the economy and the market.

Here’s why banks are a good economic indicator, how to read them, and how to play them


Look Out Below: The Mortgage Market Is About to Revisit 2008 Crisis Woes Part II

Look Out Below: The Mortgage Market Is About to Revisit 2008 Crisis Woes Part II

Last Friday, I gave you this warning: The mortgage market is once again in danger, only this time the damage is going to be a lot worse, last a lot longer, and impact the housing market and the economy in worse ways than the 2008 financial crisis did.

I laid out all the details and data in Friday’s article, which you can read here, but today, I want to get into it a little bit more. It’s going to be hard to hear, but it’s absolutely necessary, since it will affect your Total Wealth.

If you thought the worst of the financial crisis was way behind us, you’re about to get a rude awakening.

Mortgage Massacre 2.0 is right around the corner.

Here’s how “forbearance” and “rent strikes” are already impacting the mortgage market and how what’s barreling down on us is going to make 2020 look like 2008 all over again.


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