Safe Dividend Investing
In 2000, I lost $300,000 in mutual funds that an investment advisor had put my lifesavings into.... I lost it because I had entrusted it to an industry that does not educate investors nor encourage them to look closely at what that industry is doing with their money..... I set out to find a better, safer way to invest..... My podcasts relate to what I learned in creating a generous, reliable income and in growing my wealth.... A few of the more important lessons I learned and explore are:.... (1) It is critical that you become a self-directed investor.....(2) If you can not easily measure the risk and potential in an investment, then do not invest in it. This excludes from your portfolio bundled investment devices, like mutual funds, ETFs and Index funds,..... (3) Financially strong companies who have paid “good dividends” for decades will continue to stay strong and continue to pay good dividends because it is both part of their "character" and in their executives selfish interest.....(4) Diversification is critical. Investing equally in the best 20 strong dividend stocks is the ideal.....A portfolio of 20 limits your risk in any one stock to 5% of your wealth..... No matter how strong you think a stock is, do not fall in love with it..... I have lived very well off my steady dividend income for 18 years, through two market crashes and one pandemic. I have watched my portfolio’s capital more than triple from where I started, despite taking out a generous dividend income every year to live on... In charts, for my second investment book,(Safer Better Dividend Investing), I spent months scoring all 628 dividend stocks paying dividends of 6% or greater traded on the TSX, NYSE and the NASDAQ. I discovered dozens of stocks that can provide not only a generous dividend income but outstanding capital growth.....Financial independence is realizable for careful, patient, dividend investors.
Safe Dividend Investing
Podcast - WHY CANADA BECOMING THE 51st US STATE IS NOT A JOKE.
21 April 2025
US INVASION PLANS FOR CANADA
My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald. Today’s podcast is a departure from my usual Saturday dividend podcasts. It explores the conflict currently going on between Canada and the United States.
A few days ago a podcast listener was excited to discover in my novel, “USING DROUGHT USA” that I had predicted a situation where the president of the United States would initiate a plan to invade Canada to acquire its natural resources
That novel was released in 2019. While it is a fictional work, the story is based on long simmering issues within Canada that many Americans may not be aware of.
Releasing Chapter 13 of USING DROUGHT USA in this Podcast is a quick way, especially for Americans, to understand why references to Canada becoming a fifty-first state is not viewed by Canadians as a joke. It ignited their suppressed patriotic emotions.
Those interested in the action before and after Chapter 13 can go to amazon.com. Using new technology Amazon recently made this novel and my other two novels immediately available as inexpensive audio books. The novels are also available as e-books or a print books. You may be interested in my earlier novel "Duel" which deals with an action packed confrontation between the USA and China for world dominance.
To set the scene in Chapter 13 of "Using Drought USA": Dr. Rob Lyons, a US State Department analyst, has journeyed to Calgary to meet with Western Canadian separatists a few days after meeting with Eastern Canadian Separatists. The President had sent him to Canada undercover to investigate how the United States could invade the country and take what they want.
The State Department has embedded a communication device in Rob’s body to monitor the situation and silently assist him..
Book : USING DROUGHT USA
Author: Ian MacDonald
Narrator: Ian MacDonald
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – THE WEST
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