The Safe-Money Investor Advocate
In an era of high-risk, high-stakes exuberance, Mike Larson stands out as a leader in conservative investment strategies that outperform the market over the long haul.
Using the safety-oriented Weiss Ratings as a guide, Mike's Safe Money Report has a proven history of guiding investors to stocks that provide consistent dividends, excellent growth, plus asset protection in down markets.
Meanwhile, his Weekend Windfalls service — where he collaborates with Trading Specialist Juan Villaverde and Ratings Specialist Mandeep Rai — shows investors how to make an average of $1,000 in extra cash nearly every Friday, also based on a safety-first income approach.
And his Heat Maps service reveals the top-rated stocks across a wide swath of industries. In each issue, he also gives an in-depth look into one sector and explains why it — and the stocks within it — should rise to the top investors' radars, too.
Mike is a graduate of Boston University and an alumnus of both Bloomberg News and Bankrate.com, where he helped investors and consumers better understand how to get the most from their savings, how to avoid risks in the mortgage market, and improve their personal finances overall.
He began doing the same on a much larger scale when he joined Weiss Ratings in 2001.
Working closely with founder Dr. Martin Weiss for two decades has given him the opportunity to see, firsthand, how keeping an eye on safety is so essential to building a reliable nest egg.
At Weiss Ratings, he has reached millions of readers and helped investors make sense of the markets, find safer investments with the highest returns, and grow their wealth through both good times and bad.
Over the years, you may have seen him featured on financial news channels like CNN, CNBC, Fox Business and BNN Bloomberg. He has also spoken on dozens of radio shows across the U.S., and his work has been quoted by AP, Reuters, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and multiple other publications.
Today, Mike Larson is the proud standard-bearer of the Weiss 50-year tradition of safe investing.
Mike Larson's Articles
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 18, 202111:00 AM Eastern
There’s a LOT going on in the market, and I’ll get to it in a minute. I’ll also tell you how those developments make now an ideal time to jump on our next Weekend Windfall recommendation!
But...
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Mike Larson On
June 18, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I was a retail stockbroker at Merrill Lynch in the 1980s, and I’ll never forget one of the conversations I had with one of my wealthiest clients.
He said, “There’s nothing I like better than to...
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Mike Larson On
June 16, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Is it time to start thinking about buying fewer Treasurys and mortgage bonds? Or raising interest rates at some point during the Biden administration’s first term?
Wall Street anxiously awaits...
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Mike Larson On
June 11, 202112:00 PM Eastern
It’s happening again — a fresh bout of real estate mania. But it’s not just housing prices that are soaring! Inflation is popping up everywhere, from commodities traded on Wall Street to consumer...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 11, 202111:35 AM Eastern
Holy cow! Did you get a load of those inflation figures yesterday?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) surged 5% in May from a year ago. That was up sharply from 4.2% a month earlier and well ahead...
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Mike Larson On
June 9, 202106:00 AM Eastern
You have to invest for the market environment you have, not the one you want.
Among all the investment lessons I’ve shared over the years, I think that may be the most important. Today, I want...
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Mike Larson On
June 8, 202108:00 AM Eastern
I’m having déjà vu all over again!
Soaring home and condo prices. Threadbare for sale inventory. Wild bidding wars … and incredibly frustrated buyers. It’s just like 2004-2005 here in South...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 4, 202111:05 AM Eastern
Investing in environmentally conscious stocks — and “ESG”-friendly names in general — gets a lot of press these days. We also keep hearing about how the traditional oil and gas sector is facing...
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Mike Larson On
June 2, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Highly rated stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ...
A healthy dollop of precious metals and mining shares ...
Income-generating investments to counter interest rate repression ...
Those...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 1, 202110:10 AM Eastern
If you’ve been a Weekend Windfalls subscriber for a while, you may be holding shares of the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (Nasdaq: TLT, Rated “D+”). This is the exchange-traded fund (ETF)...