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FIRECracker and I have been using Questrade as our brokerage for many years now and for most of that time, it’s been the…

Editor’s Note: What does an outbreak in London in 1854 have to do with predicting a stock’s future price moves in 2026? Read…

Cintas (Nasdaq: CTAS) is the kind of company investors instinctively trust. The business is steady. Margins are strong. Cash flow is reliable. In…

In May of 2024, I looked at Gladstone Capital‘s (Nasdaq: GLAD) dividend safety, giving it a “B” rating. At the time, the only…

“Nobody knows nothin’.” – Jack Bogle Vanguard’s legendary founder, Jack Bogle, once relayed a story that when he was first starting out in…

Another year of retirement over, and what a year it’s been! 2025 started off with US president Donald Trump’s return to power, and…

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A friend of mine is very wealthy. Yet every time the market shimmies, he asks me if he should get out. “It depends…

The Value Meter was never built to chase returns. It was built to answer a narrower question: What am I actually paying for…