What is real economic growth?

Happy Saturday to all of you out there!   Today’s post is a missive as to what qualifies as real economic growth. This may sound like a very dry topic, but having a handle on this actually then gives you a powerful tool for evaluating the health of any...

Dividends, part III

I don’t know where you are while you are reading Our Little Corner of the Internet, but the weather outside is frightful here in Santa Fe…brrrr…and there is lots of snow…and since we’ve no place to go…then let the Blog flow! OK, so...

Dividends, part II

I apologize to those of you who were expecting part II of the dividends post on Friday and it was not forthcoming. I ended up not having Internet access on Friday. So without further adieu…part deux. So now you know that dividends are definitively a good thing,...

Dividends, part I, addendum

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

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...

price earnings ratio primer

  In today’s post I wanted to share with you the results from one of my favorite tools that I developed during my career as a professional money manager. It was a spreadsheet that took me several days to create that analyzed the financial implications of...