This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert and advisor on Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement newsletter.

Hi, Allison.

And that other voice you heard is James Early. He's the dividend investor extraordinaire, and he's back to

answer your burning questions. We're going to talk about MLPs, preferred stocks, and how to

convert your portfolio to a dividend-producing machine. That's kind of big promises. We're

also going to get James' take on the current market volatility, and I'm going to ask him to pick

his favorite

dividend payer right now. Dividends! Dividends! Dividends! All this and more on this week's

episode of Motley Fool Answers. In our planning meeting this week, Bro was like, well,

aren't we going to talk about market volatility? And I was like, I guess we could talk about

market volatility. Yeah. It like, I guess we could talk about market volatility.

Yeah.

It's just so boring to me to talk about it, even though it's very exciting. Okay, so like

the, we're experiencing the worst quarter in four years. That's awful. That's awful. Right.

But today, for our listeners, today is not the same day as for you, the Dow is up triple digits,

and the S&P has now slipped back above 1900.

So it's just a boring topic because the Motley Fool, usually we say, don't just do something

sit there.

Yeah.

It's boring, but it's obviously not boring if you're watching your portfolio

go down, and it's sort of a scary boring feeling. But right now, I think we're at the point

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