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Weekly Series · Dividend Growth Dividend Increases This Week: November 2-6, 2026 Seven companies with at least ten consecutive years of dividend growth raised their payouts this week. No cuts. WEEKLY DIVIDENDS · NOVEMBER 8, 2026 · 6 MIN READ Waste Connections raised its quarterly dividend 10 percent to $0.385 per share, the largest percentage increase among the dividend increases this week for companies with at least ten consecutive years of growth. Brown and Brown pushed past three decades. Lithia Motors kept raising through the auto cycle. Two western utilities barely kept pace with inflation. Seven raises, seven different industries. Here is every one of them.

Opinion · Tech & Parenting The kids being optimized the hardest are the ones I keep passing over in interviews. OPINION · NOVEMBER 2026 · 7 MIN READ The global private tutoring market hit $134 billion in 2025. IMARC Group projects it reaching $248 billion by 2034. The professionalization of childhood is one of the largest consumer categories on the planet, growing faster than most of tech. I run engineering teams. I have hired hundreds of people over 20 years. The candidates I turn down most often at the top of the pile are not the ones with gaps in their resumes. They are the ones whose resumes look like they were assembled by a consultant, because usually they were. That is the actual problem. We are paying enormous sums to remove exactly the parts of childhood that make someone worth hiring later. We are training kids to be world-class library callers in a world that needs architects who can build...

Opinion · Fiscal Policy The math is not complicated. The politics are designed to prevent anyone from doing the math. OPINION · NOVEMBER 2026 · 8 MIN READ The federal deficit hit $2 trillion in fiscal 2026. Debt held by the public sits at $32.4 trillion, roughly 100 percent of GDP and double the 50-year average. CBO projects it hitting 120 percent by 2036, which would surpass the World War II peak of 106 percent. Except in 1946 the debt was falling because the war was over. This time it keeps climbing. Net interest on the debt hit $1.1 trillion in 2026, up from $970 billion the year before. By 2036 it nearly doubles to $2.1 trillion . That money buys zero roads and zero benefits. It is the cost of having borrowed before, and it is now the fastest growing line item in the entire federal budget.

Quarterly Summary · Q2 2026 Q2 2026 Dividend Income: Up 105%, Down 6.5% The account statements say the quarter more than doubled. The per-share math says my distributions shrank. Both are true. QUARTERLY · APRIL - JUNE 2026 · 7 MIN READ Dividend income across both accounts came to $1,488.18 in the second quarter of 2026, against $727.29 a year earlier. That is up 104.6 percent. Hold my share count from Q2 2025 flat and apply this year's distribution rates to those exact shares, and the same holdings would have paid $680.36. That is down 6.5 percent. The gap between those two numbers is entirely money I added. This is the first quarter I have measured it, and the result was not what I expected.

Weekly Series · Dividend Increases Dividend Increases This Week (Jul 20-24, 2026) Every raise worth noting this week came from a bank. That is not a coincidence, and it tells you something about where the capital confidence sits right now. WEEKLY · WEEK OF JUL 20-24, 2026 · 4 MIN READ Bank of America raised its quarterly dividend 14 percent to $0.32 per share on Friday, the largest increase among the dividend increases this week by a wide margin in market cap terms. Southern Missouri Bancorp lifted its payout 8 percent. Capital Bancorp went 16.7 percent higher. Three raises, three banks. Late July is Q2 bank earnings season, and boards that just cleared the stress test cycle tend to announce capital returns alongside the numbers.

Career & Compensation · Long Read The RSU Diversification Strategy I Actually Use Sell 100 percent on vest day and put the proceeds into a diversified dividend growth portfolio. Here's why that beats every other RSU diversification strategy I've seen. ESSAY · JULY 2026 · 6 MIN READ Every four years I watch a friend in tech tell me they've decided to hold their RSUs this time because the stock looks strong. About half of them come back later regretting it. That's not a story about picking bad companies. It's what a concentrated position in a single stock does to a portfolio, and it's the exact outcome any real RSU diversification strategy is designed to prevent. Your employer already pays your salary, your bonus, your health insurance, and if you leave, your future paychecks stop. Adding a large equity position in the same company means the same event that ends your income also craters your net worth. That...