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Dave Van Knapp of SensibleStocks.com publishes an annual overview of the dividend-paying stock scene. This year’s edition came out last month. Dave was kind enough to send me a copy of The Top 40 Dividend Stocks For 2010, and I’ve read through all 145 pages of it. To the point: this is the best dividend-stock […]

Many people have written to ask when Amazon will have the Kindle version of the 2010 edition of my stock book available. I just received word that it will be up in four weeks. So, if you’ve been waiting to get the book on your Kindle, mark your calendar for the middle of March. It […]

I wrote yesterday about the inevitable long-term rise in the price of oil, current recessionary pressures notwithstanding. I mentioned that at the end of the current leg down, I would be looking into buying leading oil-industry investments, such as Transocean (RIG). Several people wrote to say that Transocean is one good idea, but that Noble […]

We’ve been betting on lower oil prices for a while now, with neither gain nor loss to show for it. Our thesis was that the recession would last longer than consensus had it, therefore oil demand would remain low longer than most people thought. However, neither stocks nor oil have suffered much of a setback […]

From the executive summary of the January 2010 quarterly report to Congress from the Special Inspector General, Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), come these tidbits: While TARP did stabilize aspects of the financial system, many of its stated goals “have simply not been met. Despite the fact that the explicit goal of the Capital Purchase […]