The Best Dividend Stocks To Buy In Today's Economy

Due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly "Best Dividend Stocks To Buy This Week" series into two parts.
One will be the weekly watchlist article (with the best ideas for new money at any given time). The other will be a portfolio update.
To also make those more digestible, I'm breaking out the intro for the weekly series into a revised introduction and reference article on the 3 rules for using margin safely and profitably (which will no longer be included in those future articles).
To minimize reader confusion, I will be providing portfolio updates on a rotating bi-weekly schedule. This means an update every two weeks on:
my retirement portfolio (where I keep 100% of my life savings) the model Bunker Dividend Growth Portfolio (100% undervalued Dividend Aristocrats and kings) Due to insufficient reader interest (and it's taking an average of 7 hours per update), I am discontinuing the Deep Value Dividend Growth update series.
Why Valuation ALWAYS Matters

Even the best companies can make terrible investments if you overpay. A Yale study looking at market returns from 1881 to 2016 found that starting P/E ratio had a significant effect on total returns out to 30 years. What's more, in the past few decades, valuation has explained about 45% of the market's forward 5-year returns.
In other words, buy-and-hold investors can't just blindly buy great companies at any price but need to remember Buffett's famous quote, "It's far better to... Read more