Newsletter September 2025

GURUS

1 STOCK I WOULDN'T TOUCH WITH A 10-FOOT POLE

Current Price
$8.98
*Price as of December 8, 2023, 1:25 p.m. ET (when the article came out).

“I have a fairly simple goal for my dividend portfolio, and this high-yield stock doesn't check any of the boxes I care about.

My investment goal is to generate a reliable and growing stream of income from a portfolio of stocks. I have a preference for high-yield investments because they generate more income, but there's almost always a trade-off to be made: The higher the yield, the greater the trade-off.

With that in mind, I wouldn't touch AGNC Investment (AGNC) with a 10-foot pole, because the trade-offs are just too great for me.”

It has indeed been volatile but as of 9/4/2025 from 12/8/2023 it’s up almost 13 1/2% .

1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole | The Motley Fool

DOW 40,000

Well, gurus are not always wrong

“Possible In 12 To 18 Months, Hennessy Says [12/1/2022]

Even among the cheeriest of market outlooks for 2023, the one predicting that the Dow will hit 38,000 to 40,000 in the next 12 to 18 months is certainly an attention-grabber.

But that’s where Neil Hennessy, the founder of Novato, Calif.-based Hennessy Funds and the company’s chief market strategist, is putting his money, so to speak.”

Didn’t quite make it in 12 or 18 months but as of 3/14/2025 the DOW was 41,488.19.

https://www.fa-mag.com/news/dow-40-000-possible-in-12-to-18-months--hennessy-says-70884.html?print

YOGI BERRA'S TOP 35 QUOTES:

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
“It’s deja vu all over again.”
“I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
“It gets late early out here.”
“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
“Pair up in threes.”
“Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
“Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
“He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
“I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
“I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
“I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
“I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
“I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
“I never said most of the things I said.”
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
“I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
“I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
“So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
“Take it with a grin of salt.”
(On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

35 of Yogi Berra’s most memorable quotes

AND SPEAKING OF HIGH-YIELD INVESTMENTS

7 Monthly Dividend Stocks That Can Collectively Deliver A Mean Annual 14% APY

“One of the most unforeseen investment trends to emerge over the past few years is the level of strong interest demonstrated by Gen-Z in dividend stocks, an asset class category generally populated by retirees. “

7 Monthly Dividend Stocks That Can Collectively Deliver A Mean Annual 14% APY - 24/7 Wall St.

BITCOIN: WORTHLESS

Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless

Eugene Fama, known as the “father of modern finance,” and pioneer of the efficient market hypothesis and Nobel laureate in economics, predicts that Bitcoin has a close to 100% probability of becoming worthless within the next decade.

Bitcoin Will Be 'Worthless' In 10 Years, Finance Nobel Prize Winner Says

Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket