Update from the bottom

You probably saw the stock market rally again today, yes? While it seems as if there is still likely to be bad economic news on the horizon, it seems as if the majority of that bad news has been baked into the financial markets. So I wanted to update you on my having...

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...

Lay off the layoffs, addendum

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...