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Mike Larson

| Income & Dividend Analyst

The Safe-Money Investor Advocate

In an era of high-risk, high-stakes exuberance, Mike Larson stands out as a leader in conservative investment strategies that outperform the market over the long haul.

Using the safety-oriented Weiss Ratings as a guide, Mike's Safe Money Report has a proven history of guiding investors to stocks that provide consistent dividends, excellent growth, plus asset protection in down markets.

Meanwhile, his Weekend Windfalls service — where he collaborates with Trading Specialist Juan Villaverde and Ratings Specialist Mandeep Rai — shows investors how to make an average of $1,000 in extra cash nearly every Friday, also based on a safety-first income approach.

And his Heat Maps service reveals the top-rated stocks across a wide swath of industries. In each issue, he also gives an in-depth look into one sector and explains why it — and the stocks within it — should rise to the top investors' radars, too.

Mike is a graduate of Boston University and an alumnus of both Bloomberg News and Bankrate.com, where he helped investors and consumers better understand how to get the most from their savings, how to avoid risks in the mortgage market, and improve their personal finances overall.

He began doing the same on a much larger scale when he joined Weiss Ratings in 2001.

Working closely with founder Dr. Martin Weiss for two decades has given him the opportunity to see, firsthand, how keeping an eye on safety is so essential to building a reliable nest egg.

At Weiss Ratings, he has reached millions of readers and helped investors make sense of the markets, find safer investments with the highest returns, and grow their wealth through both good times and bad.

Over the years, you may have seen him featured on financial news channels like CNN, CNBC, Fox Business and BNN Bloomberg. He has also spoken on dozens of radio shows across the U.S., and his work has been quoted by AP, Reuters, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and multiple other publications.

Today, Mike Larson is the proud standard-bearer of the Weiss 50-year tradition of safe investing.

Mike Larson's Articles
Safe Money Report Subscription Alert
When a position is working tremendously in your favor, it makes sense to grab gains. That what we did with various positions in the past few months, including in ETFs focused on Treasuries and...
The year 2020 is one for the record books. Indeed, even the most macabre author of dystopian fiction would have been hard-pressed to conjure up the events we’ve seen so far — and the year isn’t...
Weekend Windfalls Subscription Alert
Shares of Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT, Rated “B-”) have been on a tear since mid-April. Why? Government stimulus payments, expanded unemployment benefits and a general shift toward the “order online,...
Will opening up the economy lead to a second wave of infections and shutdowns? Or is the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak behind us? Will the nature of business investment and consumer spending be...
Weekend Windfalls Subscription Alert
One of these days, the broad averages are going to break out or break down —likely in a HUGE way. But after the big flush lower in March … and the big rush higher in April … the Dow and S&P 500...
Investing is a tough business. If it wasn’t, it’d be called “winning.” The last thing you want to do is make things harder on yourself. And I feel like that’s what too many are doing in stocks...
Weekend Windfalls Subscription Alert
It’s a new week, and a new options expiration cycle, now that May contracts have gone off the board. Since your May covered call spread on State Street (STT) expired in your favor on Friday …...
Weekend Windfalls Subscription Alert
Good news: Today is May expiration day — and you should have no trouble locking in solid income on a pair of recommendations! First, your May covered call spread on State Street (STT) involved...
There’s a great divide in America today. And I’m not talking about politics. I’m talking about the rift between the “real” economy and the “asset” economy. Suppose you hadn’t been watching the...
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Despite Depression-era unemployment, stocks have surged. Despite soaring loan delinquencies, investors have been snapping up bundles of consumer loans. Despite the one of the worst corporate...