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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
imacd@informus.ca