treasuries

Porter firmly believes that the report on this company will prove to be the best recommendation of his entire 30-year career – surpassing even The Hershey Company (HSY), Microsoft (MSFT), and W.R. Berkley (WRB).

This month’s recommendation looks at a real estate investment trust, or REIT, that has a very low level of risk, and that is supported by a huge dividend that is well above almost any fixed-income instrument in the market today.

Perhaps the greatest of all the financial myths out there is that investing in U.S. Treasuries is a risk-free endeavor… The truth is that a U.S. Treasury security with a 10-year maturity is anything but risk-free.

We know this company as a popular discount broker but as it has moved into retail banking it is finding itself slowly slipping under water.

The recent surge in foreign banks buying gold has occurred alongside a sharp decline in their purchases of U.S. Treasury debt. The result could ultimately lead to a “debt doom loop”.