Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

Long-time readers know Green Zone Fortunes is all about finding well-rounded companies based on my six-factor stock rating model.

It’s been a minute… Adam handed me the reigns for this month’s Green Zone Fortunes issue — and for good reason: We’re adding a new income recommendation to the model portfolio. If you’ve been reading Green Zone Fortunes, The Banyan Edge or any of our content on Money & Markets, you know that I’m the “dividend guy.” Finding good stocks that pay out solid yields is my bread and butter. But what really takes my analysis to the next level is Adam’s stock rating system. It helps us find the right dividend stocks — companies with solid and sustainable yields. And we’ve landed on a stock that has a ton of potential (and a 9% payout!) for you to buy into today.

You’ll rarely find former President Donald Trump “sitting on the fence.” He favors absolutes, as if his view is judge, jury and executioner. But in mid-2017, he was hesitant to pick a “winner,” for lack of a better word, in the violent skirmish between what I’ll call “alt-right” and “alt-left” mobs in Charlottesville, Virginia. Essentially, he said that “both sides” included some “very fine people.” I dig this up today not to make a judgment on whether or not there were truly “fine people” involved in the fight.

In 2009, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke dropped the fed funds rate all the way to zero … and then he left it there through the end of his tenure in 2014. Many call the Fed’s zero interest rate policy (aka “ZIRP”) under Bernanke “financial repression” because it punished savers and lenders who could no longer earn a respectable yield on conservative debt securities, such as with U.S. Treasury bonds. A lot of retirees depend on the yield, or “income,” that bond investments routinely pay out. When that all vanished thanks to ZIRP, they began to look to other investments for yield.

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