Stick with me for some “next level” dividend thinking. We have a potential opportunity right now to buy five payers yielding up to 14.9% as the economy heads into recession. Wait, what? Why would we want to buy stocks as the economy slows? Well, we don’t want to own any names. We’ll pass on sky-high AI darling NVIDIA Corp (NVDA) . Give us cheap REITs (real estate investment trusts) because they are likely to rise as rates fall. Yes, that’s what happens in a recession. Investors flood into fixed income. Interest rates fall, and REITs—which tend to move opposite rates—rise. These landlords are already getting up off the mat after a rough two years in which rates rose relentlessly.… Read more