There is something almost poetic about comparing these two income streams. One comes from a company that has been paying shareholders for over a century to sell flavored sugar water to the planet. The other comes from locking up digital tokens on a network that did not exist fifteen years ago to help validate transactions […]
Coca-Cola’s Dividend vs. an Ethereum Staking Yield: The Old Economy vs. the New Read More »
There is a particular kind of investor who checks his portfolio at red lights. He knows the closing price of oil, the yield on the ten year treasury, and the exact percentage his net worth dropped during lunch. What he does not know is why his shoulders have been tight for three years, or why
The Silent Dividend: How Peace of Mind Outperforms the SP 500 Read More »
There is a corner of the internet where people celebrate receiving $47 in quarterly dividends from Coca Cola like they just inherited a country estate. There is another corner where people post screenshots of losing $80,000 on weekly options and receive thousands of upvotes accompanied by a single word: legend. These two communities could not
The idea of making money while you sleep is ancient. Landlords figured it out centuries ago. Bond holders figured it out not long after. Dividend investors turned it into a religion sometime in the twentieth century, complete with sacred lists, initiation rituals, and heretics. But something strange has happened in the last decade. The concept
There is a quiet contempt between two groups of income investors that rarely gets talked about directly. On one side, dividend investors. They buy shares in companies that have paid cash to shareholders for decades, sometimes centuries. On the other side, DeFi investors. They lock tokens into protocols and earn yield that can make a
There is a specific type of silence that falls over WallStreetBets when someone mentions dividends. It is not hostility. It is not disagreement. It is something closer to confusion, like a room full of skydivers being asked if they have considered gardening. The activities are technically both done by humans, but beyond that, the overlap
Why WSB Would Never Touch a Dividend Stock And Why Dividend Investors Are Fine With That Read More »
There is a strange paradox in the world of income investing. Two groups of people who want the exact same thing, a steady stream of money they did not have to clock in for, have developed a deep and almost theological disagreement about how to get it. Dividend investors look at landlords and see people
There is a particular kind of horror that dividend investors feel when they watch someone day trade. It is not the horror of watching money being lost. They can live with that. Losses happen. Markets fall. Mistakes are part of the game. What horrifies them is something stranger and harder to explain. It is the
Ask a dividend investor what they did last Tuesday and they will probably say nothing. Ask a day trader the same question and you will get a story involving three screens, a ruined lunch, and a moment of either triumph or quiet self loathing. Both people are in the market. Both want to make money.
There is a particular kind of argument that happens at dinner parties when someone mentions real estate. One person leans back and says they own a few rental houses. Another person, slightly smug, says they own real estate too, but without the tenants, the toilets, or the phone calls at midnight. They own REITs. Shares
REITs vs. Rental Properties: The Dividend Investor vs. the Direct Landlord Debate Read More »