Ep. 78: Quality Over Yield — The Case for Dividends, the High-Yield Illusion & Where Durable Income Actually Lives

8 sources walking the full income spectrum, unified by quality/sustainability over headline yield: (1) GenEx Dividend Investor on the hidden reason dividend investors outperform (Damodaran vs Siegel, dividends as a behavioral compounding tool); (2) Pam & Dividends on buying quality income ETFs after Friday's pullback (market still up YTD); (3) Doug the Retirement Guy's 5 ETFs that don't destroy your portfolio (SCHD/QDVO/JEPQ/SPYI/QQQI) vs the QYLD/IWMY foils — NAV erosion, ROC, covered-call decay; (4) Nims on 11 REX/YieldMax high-yield ETFs being liquidated (a high-yield ETF is a product that can be shut down); (5) High Yield Investor's two aggressive buys — Rayonier (RYN) timberland REIT at a 34% NAV discount + alt managers BAM/ARES/BX (dedollarization, AI infra); (6) building a dividend portfolio to replace the ~$67K average US salary via a top high-income active ETF; (7) Costco (COST) HOLD — elite business, ~45x P/E too rich, wait for a pullback; (8) Garmin (GRMN) dividend declaration $4.20/share in 4 installments, GF Score 98, fairly valued.