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Credit Cards: Do the Banks Own the Senate?

Its not the banks that are the problem, nor government, nor special interests, nor lobbyists, nor any group or anything else.

The actions of the above people and institutions are a SYMPTOM and not the cause of our biggest problem.

Our real problem, which is wholly insurmountable for the time being, is DNAIG:

DNA INFESTED GREED which infects all of us at the molecular level.

NANO technology may, if we are lucky, lead to a procedure which will cure us; but, there is no guarantee.

Otherwise, we are finished as a species. This poison, without an antidote, will be our end.

High Yielding Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in January

This "strategy" is a myth.

The Exchange lowers the share price of a dividend stock the exact amount of the dividend on the ex-date. So, for example, if a stock is set to open at, say, $10.00, and the dividend is .25, then the stock will be reduced .25 and open at $9.75.

Of course, from there, the stock may go up or down. If it goes up quickly over .25, then it "looks like" someone just got a free dividend, but that's not what happened at all.

Sorry, but someone said once, "If it looks too good to be true....