No. 20 · Monday, October 26, 2026 A real dividend portfolio, in the open Get the Monday email
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Longer pieces on how dividends work, built from the companies’ own filings.

October 15, 2026 · Books

One Hundred Years Old and Still the Best Money Book You Can Read in an Afternoon

The Richest Man in Babylon turns one hundred this year. George S. Clason wrote it in 1926, when the radio was new and the stock market crash was still three years off, and it has been in print ever since. Not because it is clever, but because it is true in a way that doesn't wear out. A century of money books have come and gone since, most of them longer and most of them worse.

October 13, 2026 · Buybacks vs. dividends

The Faucet and the Drain: What a Buyback Headline Doesn't Tell You

Every quarter, dozens of companies announce that they "returned capital to shareholders" through stock buybacks. The number is always big, it is always in the first paragraph of the press release, and it is usually said in the same breath as the dividend, as if the two were the same thing.

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