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The U.S. Federal Reserve increased its key interest rate a total of 11 times between March 2022 and July 2023. And while the central bank hasn't made additional increases lately – and some think it may even move toward cuts soon – the bottom line is that the current rate environment makes fixed-income instruments much more attractive than most dividend stocks.Consider that the average yield of a stock in the S&P 500 index of the largest U.S. companies is just 1.7% at present, while 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds provide 4.7%...

In his 2022 book, "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology," author Chris Miller highlighted a crucial vulnerability in the global semiconductor supply chain, with significant implications for the U.S. as a modern superpower.He points out that a significant portion of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capability is concentrated outside the U.S.: 37% of the world's new computing power is produced by chips from Taiwan, 44% of global memory chips are produced by two Korean companies, and all of the world's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, crucial for manufacturing...