Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

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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Last week I highlighted how one of our boring stock holdings, Sterling Infrastructure Inc. (Nasdaq: STRL), has more than doubled our money and greatly exceeded the return of its top 10 customers — big names like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Click here if you missed last week’s trade alert. This week, I want to show you the role dividend yield plays in our successes. See, a lot of folks in my inner circle are talking about “income” these days.

My team shared a fascinating article with me this week… Artificial intelligence (AI) just passed the medical licensing exams that people study years for in order to become doctors … with no specialized training. AI technology isn’t some far-off sci-fi concept — it’s a mega trend that’s unfolding right now. This month’s newsletter singles out one company that uses AI and automation to reinvent how we approach labor.