George Edwards

http://www.ghedwards.com

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    • ON: Tue Sep 16th 08:08 AM
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      What Does Dow's Theory Tell Us About Bank of America?
      And through all those downturns BAC continued to increase the dividend every year.
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    • ON: Fri Jul 25th 08:35 AM
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      General Electric Presents a Dividend Opportunity
      It is not just a solid dividend: The dividend represents solid growth. We bought GE several years ago when it was yielding about 2.5% on the current price. Now, with dividend increases, we are getting 15% yield on our original purchase price. Show me a bond that will do that for retirees.
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    • ON: Tue Jul 15th 08:32 AM
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      Investing in Dividend Paying Companies
      This analysis is further proof, if any were needed, of the wisdom of buying solid companies and planning to hold them for a long time. A refinement of the technique would have been to assume all stocks had DRIPS plans, and you opted for them, which would have been the best pre-retirement strategy.

      Mind you, not all of the DJIA stocks meet my personal quality criteria, so I would have been more selective. The same holds true today, for example GM. And there are other higher-quality stocks which are not on the DJIA list. Quality is the issue, and dividends are part of the definition of quality.
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    • ON: Tue Jun 17th 10:30 AM
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      2 Reasons to Hold a U.S. Stocks-Dominated Portfolio
      Just a not in passing on the supposed parallel between the Imperial Rome and the USA. The rise of the Roman Empire was coincident with a major period of global warming. The collapse of the Roman Empire took place coincidentally with a significant period of global cooling. We are, I am widely advised, in a significant period of global warming at the present moment.
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