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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 259 on January 24th of 2026. 

My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". I will maintain the introductory price for this new book until all the previous buyers of my book have been informed of its release.

The latest hyper promotion of Artificial Intelligence penny stocks as the next Microsoft or Nvidia reminds me of the pump and dump strategy of stock promoters pushing gold stocks that I encountered decades ago, early in my career. Today, almost the same language is being used however they are now aided by the  internet and other computerized aids.

In this podcast I analyze an actual penny stock and explain what to look for to avoid getting caught up in a pump and dump scheme in which you could lose all your money. It is astounding how much these investment schemes can make for the stock promoters at the expense of investors. No one puts a gun to the head of those purchasing these stocks. They are blinded by what they think is a "sure thing", despite the fact that they have done not even the basic research on the stock.

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about showing people just like you how to  select, from the thousands of stocks available, those that are financially strong with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends with ever increasing share  prices.  My objective is to give  investors the confidence  to consider building safe stock portfolios as self-directed investors. Once your  financial independence is realized, you will, like me, enjoy a generous, reliable, income for the rest of your lives. 

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 259 on January 24th of 2026. 

My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

Today, I compare five stocks each with a share price greater than $300. Four of them are AI stocks: Alphabet, Adobe, Microsoft and Meta Platforms. The fifth stock (traded on the New York Stock Exchange) is as far away from being an artificial intelligence stock as you can get but unlike the four AI stocks it has anunusually high dividend yield of 9.65%. It is almost impossible to find a stock with a share price over $100 paying a dividend even as high as 2%. I wondered if this high dividend stock was a scam. I had to investigate this unusual stock and share with you what I learned.

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about showing people just like you how to  select, from the thousands of stocks available, those that are financially strong with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends and ever increasing share  prices.  The objective of my podcasts is help give investors the confidence  to consider building stock portfolios as self-directed investors. Once your  financial independence is realized, you will, like me, enjoy a generous, reliable, safe income for the rest of your lives. 

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 258, on January 17th of 2026. 

My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

Being a miners son and having worked my way through university as a mine laborer I found it interesting this week to read an author's views about the attitudes towards money of the wage earning working class to that of high-net-worth attitude of the wealthy class. Having also been well compensated senior executive in large corporations and now living off my investments I felt qualified to add my views on the differences.  Is the billionaire with his investment portfolios really happier because of his investments or do they weigh him down?

A similar question was raised by another author who suggests your objective should be to strive to spend all you have accumulated and to die with a net worth of zero. I find there is something sad to imagine seeing joy in the eyes of the soon to be departed because he has achieved his ambition of reducing his wealth to zero. You may find my views on such an ambition interesting.

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification,           persistence and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving financial independence for the rest of your life.

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 257, on January 10th of 2026.  Happy New Year!

My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

This week I answer a question from one of our listeners who wants to understand why some of the largest of the financially strong companies who appeared in my previous books do not appear in the current book. I relate what I learned in building a national commercial risk data base of 2,200,000 businesses and why I am not surprised that the high share prices of companies is often temporary. The stocks who quickly climb from a share price of a few dollars to hundreds of dollars are at the fickle mercy of speculators. I illustrate why I trust my future income and wealth to dividend payouts rather than share prices.

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification,           persistence and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving financial independence for the rest of your life.

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 256, on January 3rd of 2026.  Happy New Year!

My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books. Today my seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored" became available on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for "Ian Duncan MacDonald books". It is my only book in the display with a green cover. Until February 10th, it is available at a discounted price.

In 2025 the book required hundreds of hours of my time. It feels good to now have the freedom to investigate investment questions I have wondered about. For example, how many U.S. stocks pay dividend yields over 20% and would I consider adding any of them to my portfolio?

My research identified 27 stocks out of thousands traded in the USA who pay a dividend over 20%. One paid an incredible 400% dividend. I also immediately identified one that appears in my latest book. It is one that I might have consider for my portfolio. In this week's analysis of these two stocks may get some insights in the consideration of high dividend stocks.

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification,           persistence and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving financial independence for the rest of your life.

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

Ian Duncan MacDonald

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 255, on December 27th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.

 I finally finished the editing and formatting of my latest book, “Achieving Financial Independence Safely. 200 NYSE Stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. Early next week it will be forwarded to Amazon/Kindle. As soon as it is available, I will be informing all those who sent emails to me at [email protected] requesting when they could order it at the the initial discounted price.  

During the following week I came across an article by an investment analyst at a large firm. He excitedly reported that Microsoft paid out in dollars a higher dividend than any of  the S&P 500 companies. Since a Microsoft stock could be bought for $487.71 and paid out a dividend $3.64 over a year I found it hard to believe that $3.64 was something to brag about. I also wondered for such a profitable company where were the billions in profit going?

This podcast deals with stock options, investment charges, greed, inflation, Verizon, portfolio's of 20 stocks, speculator blindness and achieving financial independence. 

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high  dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification and patience win out in investing. 

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 254, on December 20th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.

 I continue to  working away on my latest book which will be called “Achieving Financial Independence Safely. 200 NYSE Stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. I am now down to the editing and formatting. However, I did add a new chapter to recognize the tremendous impact that AI stocks are having upon the stock market. I have anticipated that the readers of the new book would question why nothing on AI stocks would have appeared in the book.

I found it interesting in researching this new chapter on AI stocks how similar an  impact it has had upon the population was to when electricity was first introduced in the late eighteen hundreds. The same fears were there about a technology that you might not be able to control.

 My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high  dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification and patience win out in investing. The objective is achieving that steady, reliable income that results in financial independence for the rest of your life.

 My plan is to release this new book at a greatly reduced price for ten days. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release date, please email me at [email protected].

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 253, on December 13th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.

 I am still working away my latest book to be called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. I hope to complete it within the next ten days.

 The book will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfolio of financially strong, high dividend, income stocks. My plan is to release the book at a greatly reduced price for ten days. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release date, please email me at [email protected].

Last week in Podcast 252 I read an excerpt from Chapter One of the new book. This week I will finish the remainder of Chapter One.

The objective of my podcasts and investment books is to motivate you to pursue financial independence as a self-directed dividend investor. You  can achieve this independence faster and at less expense than handing you life savings over to those who wish to transfer as much of your money into their pockets as they can. No one cares as much about your money as you do.

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 252, on December 6th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.

 I am still trying to finish my latest 340-page book book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. It has taken me far longer than I had expected. 

 It will be of great assistance to anyone who wants to build a safe portfolio of financially strong, high dividend, income stocks. My plan is to have a preliminary release of the book at a greatly reduced price. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release, please email me at [email protected].

My objective with my podcasts and investment books is to motivate you to pursue financial independence as a self-directed dividend investor. Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

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
[email protected]

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 251, on November 29th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.

 Today is a very quick podcast. I am trying to finish up my latest book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. Over the last 7 months It has taken up much more of my time than I had expected. However, the end is in sight, and I think it will be of great assistance to anyone trying to build a portfolio of financially strong, high dividend, income stocks.

I did have time this week to watch a recent lecture by Warren Buffet on YouTube. It is not often you get insights into the pluses and minuses of bit coins, investment bubbles, and why value investing works, from an outstanding investor with 70 years of investment experience. I think anyone who listens to this video will come away as I did much wiser and better informed. The lecture has a terrible title to get your attention “Bitcoin is going to zero”.  It was easily found on YouTube. I strongly recommend listening to it. 

Hopefully I will soon finish the job of launching my new 340-page book. My plan is to have a preliminary release of the book at a reduced price. If you wish to be informed of this preliminary release, please email me at [email protected].

This is Ian MacDonald hoping my 250 podcasts have motivated you to pursue financial independence as a self-directed investor. Visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my books.

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
[email protected]