John Maxfield

Unless you're living off your investment income right now, you're making a big mistake if your stocks aren't enrolled in a dividend reinvestment program.

Traveling during the holidays is bad enough, the last thing you want to deal with are unexpected delays. To this end, Motley Fool contributor John Maxfield dug up statistics on the five airports and airlines with the worst on-time performances for the month of November.

The real way Cracker Barrel makes money...while you wait for a table.

Most individual investors dramatically underperform the broader market. Here's an easy way to save yourself from a similar fate.

Next year will be the first full year under the new tax regime that was signed into law this past January. Could increased rates on dividends and capital gains hurt shares of AT&T and Verizon?

The year that's coming to an end was one for the record books for Bank of America. All told, the nation's second largest bank by assets paid out approximately $20 billion to settle allegations related to everything from racial and gender discrimination to illegally robo-calling its customers' cell phones. Here's a breakdown of the big bank's most expensive misdeeds.

Shares of Annaly Capital Management have gotten pummeled over the last year. But are they now cheap enough to buy?

Could this be the bookseller's final holiday season?

Developing an investment strategy is hard. There’s no getting around that. But that doesn’t mean the strategy itself needs to be complicated.

Recent changes to federal tax law make lowering your taxable income particularly important this year. Here are two simple and legal ways that taxpayers can go about doing so.

It's inevitable that certain individuals and institutions will intermittently proclaim the death of buy-and-hold investing. But the reality is that it's still the only way for investors to generate consistent, long-term returns.

With the recent change in tax policy, taxpayers are now facing higher top marginal tax rates for capital gains. It's for this reason that shareholders of J.C. Penney and Abercrombie & Fitch may actually have something to celebrate.

Exchange-traded funds can be an extremely valuable asset for investors. Here are four things to look out for when deciding which one(s) to add to your portfolio.

When it comes to investing, we are our own worst enemy. Here are three critical lessons that investors need to learn to boost their returns.

It's becoming increasingly clear that the federal government is intent on making banks like Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and U.S. Bancorp pay for their misdeeds during the financial crisis. In reality, however, it's the innocent shareholders who are suffering.

Shares of Barnes & Noble plummeted yesterday after the company announced that its founder and chairman had sold 2 million shares. In an interview later in the day, he intimated that it had nothing to do with the company's current condition. Should shareholders buy this explanation?

Given that yield is a reflection of risk, it isn't often that you find a high-yielding stock that's also safe. That's why New York Community Bancorp is such a rare commodity.

When the founder and largest shareholder of a struggling company sells $27.6 million worth of stock for “tax planning purposes,” do you really think that’s the reason behind the sale? That’s the question shareholders of Barnes & Noble must now answer.

At an industry conference in New York, Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan cast considerable light on how much more damage is in store for the Charlotte-based lender.

If Wal-Mart were to enrich its employees, it may very well lose them as customers. As a result, Wal-Mart is doing precisely the opposite, paying its employees so little that they have no choice but to rely on its promise of everyday low prices.