OT- Cooking the Books

If that's what you're looking for I would suggest you look for dividend aristocrat blue chip stocks. Nothing is a value now due to current valuations but have cash ready for the next crash/correction. There were some outright steals in 2009 that anyone paying attention could've cleaned up on. There are solid companies that have raised dividends annually that will always be around. There are tons of lists on the Interwebs.

Income funds worry me because your return is diluted by non performers plus you never really know how much of the yield filters through all of the hands in the pot. As you said in the other thread...if you're looking for yield and the equity price isn't a big concern then look for individual companies that have a solid yield in bulletproof industries.

The rich people that wrote the books on making money in the market didn't do it through funds. They bought low priced stocks of good companies that paid good dividends. We've been sold a bill of goods about funds and indexes.

What you suggest is exactly what I'v already been doing with SO, F, XOM, and T.

I want to expand, but dont have the time to do the prudent reasearch, so looking for the right fund that has done the research for me. Right now, i dont even have time to call either of my brokerages unless I do the jake from state farm thing in the middle of the night.

Eta- agree about current valuations, but i want to have my target in the sights when it becomes trigger time.

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What's the argument in favor of the long neck bottles?

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Glass is better insulated in the hot weather.

In some states, you can get paid to recycle them.

Downside..

The walk of shame to the trash can in the driveway with a sack full of jangling beer bottles.

Ribeye steak. $11.99 a pound. That's a "sale" price.

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YOU should be a Hillary or Bernie supporter, if you are a hard worker. Their policies are favorable to the working class. Republicans exploit the working class. Working class people who vote for republicans are chumps.

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Actually no. After promising NOT to raise taxes on the middle class, Obama raised them in several areas. Also, Hillary just gave a speech saying she had every intention of raising taxes on the middle class. The only difference in The Dems are they are a little more creative in how they raise taxes. But they say they are the middle classes friend then stick it to us every time. Neither party is great about it. The GOP says they are against raising taxes then cave to the liberals to get other legislation passed.

Just like Obama Care when he promised everybody would have Health Insurance and rates would go down. Common sense tells you that if you give 30 million uninsured people free health insurance that SOMEBODY has to pay for it. My rates went from $551 a month to 625 a month to $725 a month the last three years. Thank goodness for cheaper health insurance through Obama Care, right?




For some reason people just can't understand that you cannot get anything for free. Somebody has to pay for it....the middle class usually. As for Bernie? how are you going to give a free college education away? Somebody will pay for it and it sure won't be the rich, I don't care what Bernie says.

Yall please cease the political jibber jabber. We've got hundreds of pages going for that already. I sidetracked it with finance talk, was scolded, so started this thread instead.

Please understand my plight.

What if you're a hard worker but not a working class? What if I work for a Wall Street institution and they'll make my day to day life even more difficult, convoluted, and backwards than what regulators already have. I think I'll pass on them. I'm literally at a point where I hate all possible candidates.

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I have 1200 acres of pasture leased out to a cattle rancher here. Spring and fall he butchers a few cows and brings me a couple dozen Ribeyes and a few racks of rib. I trade my neighbor some hay for pork sausage and chops when he butchers a hog.

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This seems like a risky deal considering equity yield CEF deferals when compared to market ratio indexes (corrected for cannibalization horizons, of course). Aren’t you worried about liquidity?

Obama cut taxes on the middle class.

I linked the politifact article on this on another thread last week.

I am too lazy to do it again.

Try reading a newspaper instead of being brainwashed by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

The affordable health care act is a conservative plan. It's the only thing they could get passed. That's not what Bernie wants, nor what Hillary fought for in 1993.