Dividends, part I, addendum

by | 15 12 2008 | Best of the Blog, Blog

Hello everyone, I hope that each of you had an excellent weekend. A quick addendum to the first posting about dividends. So I think I made a pretty good case that dividends are desirable. They are cold, hard cash return to investors. Because of that fact then you as...

Dividends, part I

by | 11 12 2008 | Best of the Blog, Blog

I have decided to move a question from the comments section to the main blog because of its importance. Here we are talking about dividends, and thanks to Gary, who asked. When investing in a financial asset (e.g. stock, preferred stock, bond, money market, mutual...

Lay off the layoffs, addendum

by | 10 12 2008 | Blog

I wanted to add an addendum to my post earlier this month about “laying off of the layoff” announcements. Include in that previous post the fact that businesses often want to layoff employees when their prospects are soaring, but cannot because the climate...

Everybody else is doing it

by | 10 12 2008 | Blog

Happy Wednesday to all of you! Today I wanted to talk about a conversation that frequently occurs amongst corporate executives, as well as professional investors. I am going to call the conversation the, “Everyone Else is Doing It” conversation and it goes...

Downturns are a test of strength

by | 08 12 2008 | Blog

I hope that everyone had an excellent weekend. In today’s posting I wanted to reveal what I believe to be one of the secrets to making long-term as an investor. Namely, that investors make most of their money in an economic and financial market downturn, but...