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The High Dividend Stock Investor's Collapsing Dollar Survival Guide, Part 5

I'm a little suprised that no one has mentioned Oil and Gas Trusts for income. My retirement plan has, for some years, been to invest in hi-yield issues and I have found that Trusts are an excellent source. Now that I have retired, my plan is working very well, even in this recession market time.

Try this plan:
Take your social security for both you and your wife, add any retirement that you might have coming from your working years and your should be nearly up to half of your pre-retirement income. To maximize the benefit, work to full retirement (67) if possible.
All of us being investors in this forum, I will assume that everyone will have a nest egg to work with when we reach retirement age. Invest your nest egg in Hi Div stocks from all sources, and I don't mean the hi div's that the "advisers" talk about. You know, like 0.5% or maybe even 1.3% (those guys drive me nuts). Look in the industrial sectors, natural resources or utililties, something that pays more than the 4 - 5% recommended that you withdraw from your IRA each year. It isn't really very hard to get more than the 4 - 5% and this will filling the remainder of your required income for retirement. Check out Harry Domash's Dividend Detective website for a starter in your search for Hi Dividends.
Now, of course, this advise is for the working stiff, not the CEO's among us and certainly not the Madoff's of the world. Study hard and be careful. Happy and prosperous retirement.

The High Dividend Stock Investor's Collapsing Dollar Survival Guide, Part 3

Sorry that I'm getting into the discussion so late. I have owned NAT for a couple of years and I think that you need to go to their website and read about their model. They distribute 90% of their earnings each quarter to their stockholders. Their ships are leased out on the "Spot Market" for the going rate which fluctuates. They tell us that the operating cost for their tankers is under $10,000 per day and the spot market varies between around $40,000 and $80,000 per day. The only time the dividend goes down is when the "Spot Market" goes down. NAT doesn't just set an arbitrary sum as their didvidend, it is all based on income.

Dow and Rohm & Haas - Why They Go Well Together

The DOW CEO sounds like a MORON to me. Where do they get these guys? The market was headed for the hole for 2/3 of last year and he makes an offer like this with no way out of it. No allowance for the "unforseen" developments. Then runs into the board room and closes the door, refusing to even talk to ROH. What kind of a "business man" would do that?

The whole mess make me ill. and down 75%. I'm getting less hopful of a satisfactory conclusion all the time.

How John Thain Lost $15 Billion

I don't know. Where did all of this come from? I just finished working for 47 years and I got a bonus from time to time, you know, $1000, $3000, once I even got a $5000 bonus for the work that I did durning the year and my contribution. It is beyond my imagination the a guy, even the CEO of a major investment back, who makes several mil per year could earn a $15 mil bonus. I even heard that he paid his driver $280K per year. How much did he give the pions under who worked on the floors below him?

The arragance of these jerks is incomprihesable. What happened to the Board of Directors? Don't they over see things like this? Oh, I forgot, they are CEO's too. They all get the same benefits.

Meanwhile, the share holders get a $ .03 dividend. When I grow up I want to be a CEO.

Chevron: Currently Cheap and a Possible Winner In an Economic Turnaround

"This intersection is saying that the market now believes that CVX is over valued and is likely to cut its dividend to return to a more normal spread versus the T-Bond."

This is not what is met by the intersection of these two lines. It only indicates the extreme measures that the treasury has taken to add liquidity to the economy. I don't disagree on the thrust of the article. I too am a dividend investor and an energy investor. I'm hopful that the ecomony will turn around in '09 and I believe that energy (oil, coal, nat gas and clean) will lead the way.

Best to all for the New Year.

Nordic American Tanker Pays Off Yet Again

How can anyone complain about getting an 8% annual dividend? During 97 NAT paid $2.81 and their average share price was ~$35. And you say that you would prefer an good stable dividend with your investments, maybe on the order of 0.9%. Give me a break, This year their dividend is $4.89 and their average price is more like $33. That's 14.8%. I can't stand this uncertainty!
The company model is that the pay out 90% of their net profit in dividends to the unit holders and they have consistantly done that since 1997. Figure out how much you would have had if you had bought $10K worth in 1997 and repurchased units. Better yet, figure out how much you would be into the stock now if you had kept and reinvested the divided in some other profitable stock (or maybe just spent it) for all those years.

Stock Analysis: United Technologies a Buy at These Prices

You guys. I don't understand how you can hoop over 2.24%. Don't you know that there are Royalty Trusts out there that were paying 6-9% normally. Now they are paying 12-15% with their diminished price.


Don't you understand that there are MLP's out there paying out 12-17% and they have both been paying them for over 20 yeas in some cases.

Don't you know that there are Utilities out there that are paying out 4-8% in normal times and will continue to do so because we all still need electricty and gas in our homes.

Yes, you have to look them over and investigate them, look them over carefully before you buy but these guys, the good, well run ones, will still be paying out great dividends for as long as our country is viable, and I expect that to exceed my lifetime.

Chevron Corporation: Dividend Stock Analysis

CVX and XOM just don't pay enough. I prefer something over 5% and there are lots of big name companies that pay that and much more.

Why get excited about <3%?

The Perfect Storm: Even with Bailout, Economy Is Hurting

Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves and Politicians. Doctors, Lawyers and Used Car Salesmen. All no damn good.

All after the same thing, OUR POCKET BOOK.

Nordic American Tanker: Dividend Stock Analysis

You guys just slay me. Why is it that in one article a financial commentator will be whooping about a company have a "fantastic dividend of 0.9%" and in another one, like this one, you'll be castigating another company for not "committed to paying stable dividend payments".

2008 Dividends varying between 15% and 9%? Please, give me insta bility!

20 Top High-Dividend Growth Stocks

Try NAT, ED, MMP, DOW, MTR. There are many better than the ones listed.

10 Winning Stock Themes in an Obama Administration

Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves and Politicians. Doctors, Lawyers and Used Car Salesmen. All in the same bag. Not to be trusted. No Damn Good.

Regards the White House, What is the international symbol for “No Morons”?

I say we add a box to the ballot, "None of the Above". It would cost the country billions to hold another (several?) election, but what has the last eight years cost?? Trillions!!, over 4100 of our finest young men and women and lifelong suffering for 30,000 more.

Congrats "W".

RBC Analyst: Low Uranium Prices Could Turn Away Investors

So what. Nuclear power in the US is dead. They say that, even if it was begun today, it would be more than 20 years before an new Nuclear power plant even began startup procedures.

The tree huggers and the NIMBY's have made nuclear power an impossibility in this country. Let's just not even talk about it and get on with the development of Wind power, Solar, Cellulose ethanol and fuel cell technology.

This talk of nuclear power is just obscuring what is really important.

Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview

bearfund: I agree with much of what you say but, considering nuclear power, we are done with that in this country. France has done very well with it but after the debacle with WPPS (Washington Public Power System) in the 70's, nuclear is dead in this country. Because of the tree huggers and NIMBY's there is no way that this nation will ever produce a cost effective nuclear power plant any time soon.
There is more vacant, potentially available land in the west and southwest that could be available to produce solar power, both PV and Thermal, than we could use. All we have to do is start the build out and stop trying to make fuel out of Corn. We're wasting our time on the Bush Boondoggle and costing ourselves years of delay at the same time. Let's get to work on cellulose ethanol.

We need to figure out the most efficient and "possible" fuel for each application. We can drive our cars on electricity, unless we're driving cross country. We can heat our homes with electricty and natural gas. We can cook our food with natural gas or electricity. BUT, we probably can't fly from LA to anywhere with electricty or natural gas (well, maybe natural gas, I don't know. I've never heard of trying to run natural gas in a jet engine). We will need Kerosine or ethanol or some other fuel to run jet engines.

We need a lot of electricty to make steel and Aluminum. We also need a lot of metalergical coal to make steel and so we will need a way to capture the CO2 and put it away somewhere or make something out of it. There must be a way that doesn't cost more that we save.

The point is that there is not one solution to all of our energy needs, and oil will certainly be one of them for a long time to come. But the first thing we need is a rational energy plan with the goal of weening ourselves off of foriegn oil. A plan similar to the one JFK proposed back in '61 that got us to the moon. It has to be total dedication to that goal. No more head in the sand, bite the bullet, get everyone involved. If we do this we will become the greatest, richest nation in the world because we will be able to control our own destiny and to sell the technolgy developed to the world.

If we don't we may all descend into anarchy.

Baytex Energy Raises Cash Distribution; Stock Jumps

I prefer longevity. Try ERF, currently paying 10.5% and having a record of paying dividends since '01. There are lots of excellent plays among the Canadian Oil Trusts.

Can you imagine where you would be today if you had traded you .com losers in '01 and invested in ERF?