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
April 7, 202008:00 AM Eastern
Monday saw a wave of optimism on news of the tentative success of efforts to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 infections.
I can’t say for certain whether that optimism was justified in terms of...
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Juan M. Villaverde,
Mandeep Rai and
Mike Larson On
April 2, 202011:10 AM Eastern
Last Thursday, we learned that more than 3.3 million Americans filed for jobless benefits in a single week-long period. That’s more than FOUR TIMES the previous U.S. record.
We learned this...
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Mike Larson On
April 1, 202009:38 AM Eastern
The last couple of days were dominated by end-of-quarter rebalancing activity.
In simple terms, large institutional investors had to sell Treasury bonds and buy stocks. Why? To adjust their...
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Mike Larson On
April 1, 202002:39 AM Eastern
It’s official. We just closed out the worst quarter for stocks worldwide since the depths of the Great Financial Crisis.
We knew a bear market was bound to happen sooner or later. The...
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Juan M. Villaverde,
Mandeep Rai and
Mike Larson On
March 27, 202010:05 AM Eastern
3.28 million…yes, three point two eight million.
That’s how many Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the most recent week. We knew the numbers were going to be bad, but these eclipsed...
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Mike Larson On
March 27, 202009:40 AM Eastern
You should have had no trouble yesterday buying a 2.5% position in the ProShares UltraShort Financials (SKF, Rated “D+”) for your Dynamic Income Portfolio. You also entered a second limit order to...
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Mike Larson On
March 26, 202012:00 PM Eastern
Yesterday, I recommended you take advantage of the post-stimulus rally in markets to sell your remaining shares of Enbridge (ENB, Rated “C”). You should now be out of that stock, further reducing...
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Mike Larson On
March 25, 202003:00 PM Eastern
I’m going to keep this short given we’re on Day 2 of a sizable relief rally fueled by aggressive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus.
First, you should have been stopped out of both rounds of...
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Mike Larson On
March 25, 202002:11 PM Eastern
We may be living in a “worst-case” scenario.
That’s exactly what it sounds like. The absolute worst outcome to any threat that an analyst, investor, policymaker or economist can dream up could...
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Mike Larson On
March 24, 202012:25 PM Eastern
This has been a trying time for us all — not just as investors, but as Americans. And unfortunately, the worst may be yet to come.
Some of the worst-case numbers regarding COVID-19’s impact on...