The market goes up and down – sometimes wildly so – from day to day, but it mostly goes up over the long haul. That’s something I try to keep in mind while I routinely turn rotting dollars into growing and passive cash flow. There was a day, years ago, when The Coca-Cola Co. (KO)‘s […]

Mr. Market sure can be a moody fellow. Over the course of even just a day he can go from absolutely ecstatic about stocks to downright depressed about them. It’s really quite silly. But I’m consistently upbeat about the long-term prospects for high-quality businesses that provide ubiquitous products and/or services that people and/or businesses demand. […]

Boy, I missed the absolute bonanza of a sale that occurred Monday, but I still scored a pretty good deal on a high-quality stock to finish off August. If timing the market were necessary to achieve financial independence, I’d fail miserably. Fortunately, it’s not necessary and time in matters more than timing. Time in is […]

I’m so fortunate to be in a position where I’m able to fairly regularly put capital to work. And I’m not just putting capital to work. I’m putting it to work by investing in some of the highest-quality businesses in the entire world. And not just any high-quality businesses. But only those that are so […]

As I’ve noted a few times recently, there are a number of really high-quality dividend growth stocks that have already corrected rather significantly on an individual level, even while the broader stock market remains near its all-time high. But that’s one reason I love investing the way I do. I don’t really need to worry […]

This most recent stock purchase will surprise no one that follows this blog. Give me a high-quality dividend growth stock at an attractive valuation and I’m usually going to buy it, assuming I have the capital available and room in the portfolio for it. Give me an even cheaper price (with unchanged long-term fundamentals) shortly […]

Turned out to be another busy month! The last stock purchase of the month, this one wasn’t actually planned. I was quite content with the four purchases I made in July, all of which were fairly well spread out across the economic sectors and all purchased at what I feel are really solid long-term values. But […]

I’m incredibly fortunate to be in a position where I’m able to consistently buy stock in high-quality companies that have track records of reliably and regularly paying and growing dividends. And I’m taking maximum advantage of that fortunate position by once more deploying capital and buying shares in a fantastic business. This most recent purchase […]

I continue to remain aggressive hunting down the best deals on high-quality stocks I can possibly find and deploying capital when those sales present themselves. It appears another sale presented itself. So I deployed some capital. What else would you expect, right? The stock I’m going to discuss today is available at one of the […]

More volatility? Yes, please. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. – Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part III That’s kind of how I feel about this most recent purchase, though. It’s a buy in the Energy sector, which is a sector I’ve been actively trying to dance around a bit. I’ve […]