The best U.S. dividend stocks for 2013

On top of analyzing what I think will be the best 2013 dividend stocks (30 stock analyses in this book), my research over the Holidays led me to create a list of 96 US dividend stocks. This exhaustive list has been created based on specific metrics. I’m using dividend filters described in Dividend Growth Freedom Through Passive Income. These metrics have been proven to combine both dividend and capital growth [...]

UBS: The corporate recovery could be ending

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UBS Investment Research: Is that it for the re-leveraging cycle?

In 2011 we witnessed some encouraging trends: the corporate sector grew both dividends and capex by 15% and repurchased nearly 200% more stock versus 2010. In addition, net leverage increased on a global basis for the first time in several years – a positive given current low levels. This year, however, these trends are all set to weaken fairly significantly. Our [...]

Hold on! Help is on the way!

January 24, 2012

Joe Doakes’s Speech On The State of The Union in the form of a letter:

Dear President Obama,

I didn’t see your speech.  Why should I?  Why should any America hear one more syllable you utter?  What purpose would it serve?  Would it change what you have done in these last three years?  Would it change the waste, fraud and abuse that has occurred?  No.  In Cuba, in the not [...]

Why the long decline in natural gas could finally be bottoming

From The Stock Sage:

This morning, I came across an interesting slide from Ultra Petroleum’s ($UPL) latest investor presentation at the Howard Weil Energy Conference…

F&D cost stands for “finding and development cost,” which means that UPL’s average cost to find and develop its natural gas resources stands at roughly $1.60/Mcfe of gas. Moreover, UPL is one of the lowest-cost operators in the natural gas E&P industry, however, its all-in cost ($2.88/Mcfe) [...]

You “pro-lifers” want the government to control our bodies and make us slaves.

From Karl Denninger (one of the founders of the Tea Party Movement):

On “Personhood” (Continued)

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=200426

“…Let us begin with the 4th Amendment:

4th Amendment wrote..
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons [...]

REPORT: Wisc state fair mobber targeted whites; ‘easy targets’

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (WLS/AP) – The investigation into 11 of the violent incidents on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair has resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old African-American who reportedly told investigators he targeted whites.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was asked on WLS Radio’s Roe and Roeper Show Friday if he thought the crimes warranted hate crime status, “I think it is [...]

Good read: Deep Truth about the Markets and Investing

In his 1988 Baseball Abstract, Bill James listed a number of lessons had had learned so far through his study of baseball statistics. In that vein, I’ll list some observations that I’ve learned over the years:

The Federal Reserve isn’t nearly as powerful as is commonly believed.

There isn’t a person or group of people in charge of the market.

There’s [...]