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 On
January 13, 202104:18 PM Eastern
It may be a new year. But investors are facing the same old problem:
How to generate reliable, consistent, lifestyle-sustaining income.
Why? Interest rates and dividend yields were already low...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
January 8, 202110:43 AM Eastern
We finally closed the books on 2020, a year marred by enormous market turmoil and an enormous health crisis. Yet we can’t seem to get away from 2020’s shadow of chaos so far in 2021.
On...
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Mike Larson On
January 6, 202104:51 PM Eastern
So, which markets and assets “won” 2020?
That’s a trick question; the answer is “all of them.”
As this enlightening Wall Street Journal story notes, one of the most trying years in recent...
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Mike Larson On
January 5, 202108:00 AM Eastern
Now that 2020 is in the history books (thankfully!), what assets turned in a strong year?
Basically all of them, according to this enlightening Wall Street Journal story. As the piece recounts...
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Mike Larson On
December 30, 202012:45 PM Eastern
What’s the best thing I can say about 2020?
As a human being, I’d say, “It’s almost over.” As an investor, I’d say, “How long can this go on?”
We’re less than 48 hours from ringing in a new...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
December 23, 202010:30 AM Eastern
The heart of the holiday season is upon us. That means markets are thinner. Trading desks are undermanned. And more investors are thinking about drinking eggnog and buying last-minute gifts than...
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Mike Larson On
December 23, 202006:00 AM Eastern
The hours, minutes and seconds are ticking down — soon, it’ll be Christmas morning.
If you’re a parent, grandparent or someone who simply remembers your own childhood, you know how it goes: a...
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Mike Larson On
December 15, 202004:03 PM Eastern
“I almost could cry talking to you now ... I feel like I didn’t just get a vaccine, I got a shot of hope.”
That’s what Maggie Hagan, a doctor in Wichita, Kan., said earlier this week when she...
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Mike Larson On
December 15, 202008:00 AM Eastern
As I write, millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are making their way around the world. By airplane. By truck. By the hands of thousands of delivery workers.
Hundreds of locations will have...
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Mike Larson On
December 11, 202012:00 PM Eastern
Washington is about to embark on an epic print-borrow-spend bonanza, with money pouring out of the Fed, the Treasury, the Congress, and every other nook and cranny in D.C. What will that mean for...