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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 248- (November 8,  2025)

This week's podcast was motivated by a question from one of my book readers. He asked why I was so sure there would be a market crash in the next two years. 

I am old enough to remember very clearly the hype and hectic days prior to the dot com stock market crash in 2000. The internet was then going to be the next big thing. Investors would all get rich if they invested in companies that had dot com in their make up. 

AI is now the next big thing. However, as I point out in my podcast, everything that glitters is not gold and AI brings problems with that need to be resolved.

Looking closely at the major AI stocks you can see that they are speculative investments. While it is advantageous to have a small percentage of your stocks in speculative stocks to hopefully grow your portfolio's value, you are advised to be very careful.

I write my investment books for those who fear that they will lose their life savings by investing in the stock market My books show  investors  an easy, safe way to select financially strong, safe, growing companies who pay high dividends .  I have been successfully investing this way for more than twenty years . My portfolio of strong dividend stocks not only provides me with a reliable, growing source of income but over time has increase the value of my portfolio by several multiples.

Unlike mutual funds and index funds - where investors have no control over their investment and  only a vague idea as to what stocks are in the fund - a self-directed investor can fully understand  and appreciate the value of each stock in the portfolio that they created. They can escape the mundane returns and high fees inherent in owning funds.

For more information on self-directed investing go to my website www,.informus.ca or  listen to the previous 248 weekly podcasts. The first 160 podcasts are devoted to answering questions from investors just like you. Some of the remainder give you an opportunity to practice choosing stocks and introduce new relevant topics.

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M9P 3R7
Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
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