Why is there a move back into dividends, and where can you find the highest dividend-paying stocks? Most important, what do you need to know before you buy dividend stocks and how do you calculate the dividend yield easily? Today we’ll review that and 5 opportunities for getting higher dividends into your financial plan.

The rise of artificial intelligence has created fierce demand for a new kind of computing power. That’s why Nvidia, historically a maker of chips that give video games their slick graphics, has the best-performing shares in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index over the past year–up 200%!! The same technology that makes all those video games look so real, can also tell photos of Uncle Ron from those of the family poodle!

Can money buy you happiness? And are recent lottery winners as happy as victims of car accidents who have lost their ability to walk? You can probably answer that question with a hunch but you may really be surprised by recent research when it comes to money and happiness. Then in the Q & A segment we’ll talk to commodity expert Terry Shveda with Decadian.com--one of America's leading agricultural resource analysts!

It’s a LARRY KUDLOW MONDAY! The former Ronald Reagan economist and syndicated talk show host is up next with special guests and unique insights on money, politics, Donald Trump, Congress, Muller, Russia, and the new tax bill

Newer forms of Hybrid life insurance policies are rising in demand offering refundable long term care benefits, liquidity, and estate protection—PLUS a money-back guarantee!. If you have some idle cash laying around and want to cover long term care benefits without paying big premiums, or tying up your money, you’ll want to hear all about a safe secure and liquid way to upgrade your financial plan!

Here’s a fact that surprises many people: every year, Americans acquire over $200 billion dollars in new annuities. In fact, LIMRA-- the Life Insurance Research Marketing Association, states that “Total annual annuity sales have not fallen below $220 billion for at least the past decade." Even more surprising, over half of those annuities are being used for 401(k), 403(b) and IRA rollovers. Why is it happening? There are three key reasons--we'll review them.

Just how big is Bitcoin? Its fans are saying it's market capitalization is now bigger than many small countries and bigger than some well known banks like CitiBank—could that be true? Not so fast--we’ll separate the hype from the reality. Then it’s a Health and Wealth Wednesday—PHD Doris Milton is here with a special expert guest. We’re talking about long term care challenges and solutions

The House and Senate are still horse trading on the new tax bill this week-- We'll review the two tax bill proposals once again and what you need to do before the end of the year, no matter which bill is passed. We'll also have some tips from tax specialist Laura Saunders of the Wall Street Journal. Then Estate Planning Attorney Richard Dwornik joins us for the Q & A

It’s a LARRY KUDLOW MONDAY! The former Ronald Reagan economist and syndicated talk show host is up next with special guests and unique insights on money, politics, Donald Trump, Congress, Muller, Russia, and the new tax bill-- it’s all coming up next after a short break--

...Are investors beating the market, or is the market beating them? The S &P 500 has moved up over 230% since the crash in 2009...But have investors done that well? eh, not so much! A statistical study by a major Wall Street Data Mine says that the average investor has made less than 5% annually since the crash, and less than 4% annually over the past 30 years—How can that be?? There are three key reasons you need to know about and they may surprise you.