How Much Dividend Income Did We Earn in November 2018?
At the end of each month, I publish an update of our dividend income portfolio. This portfolio of “awesome” stocks currently consists of 35+ publicly traded companies and is part of our long term financial independence (FI) plan. One of the things I really enjoy about investing for income is that when the market drops […]
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Why Are People Afraid of Dividend Stock Investing?
When it comes to the financial independence community, I feel that investing in dividend stocks (as opposed to index funds) gets a bad rap. Too often I hear complaints that earning dividend income is not worth it because of the tax implications. Some of those concerns are certainly valid. For example, an individual who doesn’t […]
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How to Build a Passive Income Stream That Doubles Every Decade
The majority of questions I get asked here on The Money Sprout are about our dividend income stream. More specifically, readers are interested in knowing the specifics of how I calculate our income growth projections. For example, I often provide dividend income estimates for the next year by tracking our 12 month forward dividend income […]
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How Much Dividend Income Did We Earn in October 2018?
At the conclusion of every month, I publish an update of our dividend income portfolio. This portfolio of “mostly awesome” stocks currently consists of 35+ publicly traded companies and is part of our long term financial independence (FI) plan. One day in the future, my wife and I plan to use our dividend income stream […]
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Earning a Bit More in Our Emergency Fund
It’s been about 1 year since I last discussed our family’s emergency fund … and the best way to earn income from that money. Based on our current spending (around $60,000 per year), my family has enough money in our emergency fund ($40,000) to cover 8 full months of expenses. If we were to cut […]
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