JamesBreyInvesting in high-yield stocks, if done properly, is one of the surest paths to generating attractive long-term total returns as well as building a large passive income stream that can facilitate an accelerated retirement timeline. This is because if you live off of dividends rather than capital appreciation, you never have to sell shares to finance your retirement lifestyle and therefore have a much more consistent and predictable return stream and can even be agnostic to volatility in the sto ...