Dividend investing and building passive income.
Bitcoin has been flat for weeks while my dividend funds keep paying anyway. Here’s the arithmetic on what a zero-yield asset actually costs you — plus how Korea’s newly confirmed 2027 crypto tax changes the after-tax math.
Korea’s Value-Up index beat the KOSPI by 8.8 points this spring — then the index gave nearly all of it back in seven weeks. Here’s the math behind that swing, and why my dividend ETFs still hold zero Korean stocks despite the rally.
Gold just pushed back above $4,400 an ounce. My dividend-focused portfolio still owns none of it — and the reason isn’t the price, it’s the yield. Here’s the arithmetic, plus how Korea and the US tax gold very differently.
A coworker sent me an 11% dividend yield. The funds I actually own pay 2-3%. Here is why the smaller number is the one I keep buying — and the year-13 crossover that explains it.
Even in a week of scary headlines, companies kept raising their dividends. Here is why rising, reinvested dividends — not the daily price — are the quiet engine of my journey.
One ordinary morning I woke up to a $130 deposit I hadn’t worked for. Here’s exactly where my dividend income comes from, the honest math behind it, and how I’m growing it in my 40s.